Oh look... another trend-hopping post that adds to the dogpile by finding ancient articles and joke memes to snag the low-hanging fruit and get attention by once again claiming PHP is terrible. But wait - it's redeemed at the end right? These posts do more harm than good and perpetuate an expired belief that has zero applicability to modern PHP.
If the writer actually does use and enjoy PHP today, it doesn't come through in this article - I apologize if I misread this.
PHP had an enormous pool of beginner developers years ago, who wrote terrible code - as we all do as beginners - then moved to another language and their opinion of PHP remains stuck on the terrible code and the messy state of the language all those years ago.
Every tool in a swiss army knife is worse than if you bought a specialized tool... and yet how useful and awesome is a multi-tool? PHP has evolved to be the best muti-tool out there, losing most of the things that gained it criticism in the past. The only thing PHP still hasn't solved is the outdated opinions and the trendy dog-piling that developers who want something to write about keep clinging to.
Personally, for those of us who work in, promote, support, and earn a living with PHP, reading these types of articles over and over and over is tiresome and pretty offensive. Like if you worked hard to save up and bought a new car and all your friends ever talked about is how crummy your old car was.
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Oh look... another trend-hopping post that adds to the dogpile by finding ancient articles and joke memes to snag the low-hanging fruit and get attention by once again claiming PHP is terrible. But wait - it's redeemed at the end right? These posts do more harm than good and perpetuate an expired belief that has zero applicability to modern PHP.
If the writer actually does use and enjoy PHP today, it doesn't come through in this article - I apologize if I misread this.
PHP had an enormous pool of beginner developers years ago, who wrote terrible code - as we all do as beginners - then moved to another language and their opinion of PHP remains stuck on the terrible code and the messy state of the language all those years ago.
Every tool in a swiss army knife is worse than if you bought a specialized tool... and yet how useful and awesome is a multi-tool? PHP has evolved to be the best muti-tool out there, losing most of the things that gained it criticism in the past. The only thing PHP still hasn't solved is the outdated opinions and the trendy dog-piling that developers who want something to write about keep clinging to.
Personally, for those of us who work in, promote, support, and earn a living with PHP, reading these types of articles over and over and over is tiresome and pretty offensive. Like if you worked hard to save up and bought a new car and all your friends ever talked about is how crummy your old car was.