Popularity doesn't determine how many design flaws exist in a language, merely how many people actually get screwed over by each of them. Python and Ruby aren't

Popularity doesn't determine how many design flaws exist in a language, merely how many people actually get screwed over by each of them. Python and Ruby aren't perfect, and they've had more than enough attention for the flaws to have been found. Even if every developer in the world migrated to one of those languages overnight (o happy day) that language would not suddenly become as profoundly inept as PHP.