"This bug report highlights the problems you run into if you use it for serious work" Why? Because they fix bugs that break backwards compatibility? What's you

"This bug report highlights the problems you run into if you use it for serious work" Why? Because they fix bugs that break backwards compatibility? What's your point? That to do "serious work" you need a language that never changes or that you need a language that gets everything right the first time? Of course can do whatever you want in PHP, you just need to account for its faults and shortcomings. If you cant do that, no language is going to save you.