How has PHP lost its way?
It grew up from a poorly thought out hacky scripting language to a major programming language. All the nasty code you could write in PHP 4 or 5 is still possible, but everyone will look at your code and laugh.
It grew up from a poorly thought out hacky scripting language to a major programming language. All the nasty code you could write in PHP 4 or 5 is still possible, but everyone will look at your code and laugh.
Absolutely nothing about modern PHP stops you from writing like the crayon-muncher you were back in the early 2000's...
You just also have the option, to, you know, use battle tested libraries and work with cohesive community driven standards now as well.
Only the language that runs most of the internet and invented the term tight development loop.
All the modern crap has just moved us further away from this.