> While many of the arguments against PHP still stand today, there's also a bright side: you can write clean and maintainable, fast and reliable applications in PHP.
You can, but in my experience, most people don't. Especially in Wordpress land. I've paid for plugins with egregious problems that "work okay" because error reporting is silenced.
> if you want to, you can write modern and clean PHP code, and leave behind much of the mess it was 10 years ago.
But most people haven't, and I'm not really interested in spending my career and hobby time playing Russian Roulette with coworkers and collaborators.
You can, but in my experience, most people don't. Especially in Wordpress land. I've paid for plugins with egregious problems that "work okay" because error reporting is silenced.
> if you want to, you can write modern and clean PHP code, and leave behind much of the mess it was 10 years ago.
But most people haven't, and I'm not really interested in spending my career and hobby time playing Russian Roulette with coworkers and collaborators.