The accumulated legacy from PHP 4.x is where most of the hatred comes from, even though it's no longer supported, nor is its successor 5.x. PHP definitely has gotten flak for quirks, but there has been huge improvement since 7.x at cleaning the worst of them... exception handling comes to mind as needing and getting more love in v7. Plus, PHP still has plenty of applications using it... WordPress is often used as an example, but don't overlook MediaWiki, the foundation behind Wikipedia and many other topic focused wikis.
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The accumulated legacy from PHP 4.x is where most of the hatred comes from, even though it's no longer supported, nor is its successor 5.x. PHP definitely has gotten flak for quirks, but there has been huge improvement since 7.x at cleaning the worst of them... exception handling comes to mind as needing and getting more love in v7. Plus, PHP still has plenty of applications using it... WordPress is often used as an example, but don't overlook MediaWiki, the foundation behind Wikipedia and many other topic focused wikis.