This is just a rant. People use PHP because they like it, or they're paid to use it or for any other variety of reasons. To argue it's because they don't know

This is just a rant. People use PHP because they like it, or they're paid to use it or for any other variety of reasons. To argue it's because they don't know any better assumes the predicate. People can rag on the language, but this post calls into question the intellectual horsepower of those writing the code, and I think that's unnecessary. To wit, I'm sure it felt great writing this post, knowing how elegantly one can take down the practitioners of a craft without sounding exactly like a troll.