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This comment is sad. First people complain about problems with PHP. Then when problems are being solved people complain about people fixing them. It honestly looks like PHP is simply in a lose / lose situation with many people. That's the real disappointment in my eyes.

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PHP is a lose / lose only to people that are not using it / won't bother learning it. It's the same with Perl. It's not hot nor trendy and that's why many people get so frustrated when they hear about people still using it because there's something "newer and better". Haters gonna hate.

It's simply not viable from a time-investment point of view to throw away tools you know extremely well, are well entrenched, well supported and stable every few years because something new comes along.

PHP is also a fairly new language, so it certainly wouldn't be my first choice if that was my main concern. In fact it isn't for this exact reason.

New language?

1995: PHP, Javascript, Java, Ruby

I think much of the hatred towards PHP fundamentally comes down to the fact that it broke down a lot of barriers to entry in the web development world which allowed for anyone with a basic text editor to patch together CRUD apps. This led to an army of "w3cschools.com developers" referring to themselves as software engineers, which offended many in enterprise Java land.

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