No.

No other language is as popular but as shit.

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Php improved a lot since that article was written but anyone who had a) sense and b) choice stopped using it already. And there are many ways it continues to be fundamentally broken

i maintain that the reason everyone on the internet hates php

let me finish the sentence:

...because they knew about the vulnerability since 2024 and simply forgot about it.

Well, JS is just as much of a joke to me. ;)

We are fully capable of thinking PHP, NPM, and PyPi are trash simultaneously. Though it should also be said that only PHP has had decades of security flaws in the language itself, rather than a package manager.

It's just a very poorly designed language with countless footguns and fucking idiotic standard library functions, on top of being a running joke, security-wise.

JavaScript gets a lot of shit and part of that's from me, a JavaScript dev.

cuz, nobody really treats any other language like this, even though… gestures to npm

I usually see more Javascript hate than PHP hate these days, mostly because everyone had forgotten that PHP exists.

Yup, PHP is a workhorse language that pays the bills. Source: My bills.

If you treat programming as a job, PHP is good because it lets you get things done.

If you treat programming as a craft, PHP is gross for a whole bunch of reasons.

I definitely treat npm the worst because it deserves it.

Nooo but how do I hecking pad things on the left?!?!!!1!! I need 600 npm packages before I can put a div on a page

'ate php
'ate js
'ate java
love me python
love me plain html
simple as

Big of true.

It’s true. Am PHP dev.

They hate us because of our freedom scp-to-prod pipeline

I had a coworker adopt Ruby for a major project about 20 years ago. He didn't know it, nobody on his team knew it, and nobody else in the entire state had ever heard of it, so when the project failed after two years there was nobody around who could save it. I'm sure Ruby (on Rails) is a perfectly viable language/platform, but you wouldn't know if from these guys.

Ruby, for network stuff? How? Why?

The S in PHP stands for security.

It. It. It. It.