It's not terrible. It is an important factor when considering the pool of devs that know said technology. It's the reason why I've chosen PHP for some projects in spite of my abject hatred for it (for purely aesthetic reasons mind you.)...lots of devs are very familiar with C-like languages.

Except Rails took off with the same fashion and hype and hipsterism. It's just older.

THIS, even rails is not cool anymore. It just fucking works