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Mehmet Aydin Bahadir

Thanks for your comment!

At early times, PHP's simplicity to create websites made itself the most used server-side programming language. Of course, there were some architectural implementations after PHP became popular. Therefore PHP itself still keeps its leading position even backends are not simple templating engines anymore.

We are on the same page with you about continuous support of development. Of course, the only concern should not be all about making users or editors happy and shipping things fast. You also should not be the person who writes that spaghetti codes around, as I described in the article. But this is all about the development skills of you. It's not much to do with PHP itself.

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Jochem Stoel

I think you misunderstand what I said though, which is that PHP was designed to be a template engine from day 1.