I think at this point PHP programmers don't care about the flack. We're pretty used to it. As a php programmer and a member of a php user group I can say that

I think at this point PHP programmers don't care about the flack. We're pretty used to it. As a php programmer and a member of a php user group I can say that group seeems to have half of its talks on non php topics javascript, html5, css etc. I like the community that doesn't fret about tools and only about how to build something interesting.