PHP isn't inherently a bad decision. The ecosystem is full of good examples of what not to do, but that's not a failing of the language itself. It can be done r

PHP isn't inherently a bad decision. The ecosystem is full of good examples of what not to do, but that's not a failing of the language itself. It can be done right. Yes, there are design warts. There are also RFCs to iron them out. (I opened one recently to deprecate MCRYPT_RAND so people can stop generating weak random IVs in their crypto libraries one day). Personally, I spend a lot of my free time opening issues and submitting pull requests to PHP projects on github to increase the likelihood of a budding developer being exposed to better code.