I agree, coding in PHP is far less enjoyable now that the language is, in my opinion, polluted with Java-esque object orientation. Most new code that I come acr

I agree, coding in PHP is far less enjoyable now that the language is, in my opinion, polluted with Java-esque object orientation. Most new code that I come across nowadays feels horribly overengineered. Objects are a good thing when used sparingly, but PHP never needed design patterns to be viable. Drupal is a perfect example of robust, modular software that doesn't need verbose object syntax.