It's definitely unfortunate that PHP code in various websites across the web is designed horridly, it's also sad that we're unable to fix most things in PHP e.g

It's definitely unfortunate that PHP code in various websites across the web is designed horridly, it's also sad that we're unable to fix most things in PHP e.g. the needle-haystack problem, without destroying compatibility. HHVM has done a decent job at cleaning it up with Hacklang, but some of these legacy issues we're going to be dealing with for a long time. PHP is evolving, many sites on the web are too. But legacy codebases are here to stay, I mean look at how many sites are still on classic ASP. PHP was one of my first programming languages so I will defend it, the ecosystem is much cleaner than it was a few years ago, and it's still the easiest to deploy language IMO.