IMHO, PHP is hated and misconsidered because: Since a few years ago, it was mainly used by amateurs. The truth is that PHP, right now, is a very appealing and c

IMHO, PHP is hated and misconsidered because: Since a few years ago, it was mainly used by amateurs. The truth is that PHP, right now, is a very appealing and competing language. I know several companies that power their services with PHP and it just makes wonders. Of course: you need to know what you are doing. But the language itself is capable of doing almost everything, without drawbacks. Lot of people make clueless claims about how PHP is worst than (place-latest-cool-framework/language-here). This is far from being true, read this: http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2013/11/benchmarking-codswallop-nodejs-v-php http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2013/11/benchmarking-codswall... So, PHP is hated in the devs world because it gave access to "amateurs" to the world of crafting software. Which is ridiculous.