It's fine to like PHP and I'm willing to believe that modern PHP is a lot better than what it used to be but it annoys me that every time the language is brought up these days some people feel like rewriting history to pretend that PHP-bashing 15years ago was just a baseless memes made by haters who didn't get it.
There was plenty of wrong with PHP. There were very unsafe defaults, poor API choices, poor coding standards, inconsistent syntax, paper-thin C bindings that didn't provide the level of abstraction you'd expect from a scripting language etc... If you've forgotten what PHP used to be you can just take a trip down memory lane by browsing through this classic: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ . Lest we forget PHP was started as a templating engine that evolved haphazardly into a full fledged programming language, and it showed.
If you think PHP is a good language today then say that, but let's not pretend that the complaints and ridicule were always undeserved.
There was plenty of wrong with PHP. There were very unsafe defaults, poor API choices, poor coding standards, inconsistent syntax, paper-thin C bindings that didn't provide the level of abstraction you'd expect from a scripting language etc... If you've forgotten what PHP used to be you can just take a trip down memory lane by browsing through this classic: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ . Lest we forget PHP was started as a templating engine that evolved haphazardly into a full fledged programming language, and it showed.
If you think PHP is a good language today then say that, but let's not pretend that the complaints and ridicule were always undeserved.