I've done tons of PHP coding on various projects, some of which I'm quite proud of. That said, I will probably never stop cringing at the use of PHP for any pro

I've done tons of PHP coding on various projects, some of which I'm quite proud of. That said, I will probably never stop cringing at the use of PHP for any project. It's a terrible tool in a huge number of ways, some of them fundamental. Yes, it's a functional tool, but mostly it's a competitively capable tool only because every other language/platform out there is also more or less equivalently terrible in some other way.