Hear me out, everyone here is talking about web developers and people who write the language. That’s the least import demographic and most unaffected segment of the user base.
Dropping PHP is irritating because PHP is actually a really good shell scripting language and it’s universal availability on macOS made distributing simple CLI tools for Mac written in PHP as a simple script or a bundled PHAR easy as pie.
I have a decent number of macOS specific tools I distribute as PHP, many 10+ years old, and I can guarantee almost none of my users have any idea what PHP is let alone how to install it.
Dropping PHP is irritating because PHP is actually a really good shell scripting language and it’s universal availability on macOS made distributing simple CLI tools for Mac written in PHP as a simple script or a bundled PHAR easy as pie.
I have a decent number of macOS specific tools I distribute as PHP, many 10+ years old, and I can guarantee almost none of my users have any idea what PHP is let alone how to install it.