More than half of the top level comments are from people who use PHP. You can tell by how they rush into PHP's defense and try to argue against the article.

The original post just can't be sensibly called "anti-PHP snobbery". It just points out PHP's shortcomings. But when all these PHP-users can't really attack the truth, they attack how it's presented instead (and of course whip up some strawmen and generally just try to skirt around the issues).

The human ego is a sad thing.

(Disagree? How about commenting instead of downvoting with self-righteous indignation?)