It was because every developer in the West was taught that inheritance based OOP was the one thing to rule them all.
And that unfortunate school of thought created the Java mythos that spread to many languages, not only PHP, eg JavaScript (everyone trying to write inheritance based OOP in a prototype based language).
Few years ago the mythos changed somewhat to every programming language should be functional.
Thus it is not a specific PHP problem, it is common problem of trend sensitivity in programming culture.
And the funny thing is that much of the critique against PHP, like in this thread, is in the form of "why isn’t PHP like the other programming languages?"
But agree PHP should go it’s own way, it has much to contribute to the world still and it feels like it has started to create its own path again.
And that unfortunate school of thought created the Java mythos that spread to many languages, not only PHP, eg JavaScript (everyone trying to write inheritance based OOP in a prototype based language).
Few years ago the mythos changed somewhat to every programming language should be functional.
Thus it is not a specific PHP problem, it is common problem of trend sensitivity in programming culture.
And the funny thing is that much of the critique against PHP, like in this thread, is in the form of "why isn’t PHP like the other programming languages?"
But agree PHP should go it’s own way, it has much to contribute to the world still and it feels like it has started to create its own path again.