First, I believe those haters never tried anything like PHP 5 and come from the preceding era. Honestly, versions since 5.3 are decent.
True, there is much legacy in PHP and quirks here and there. But man, jus look at JS. It's a ridiculous mess, and how popular it is nowdays!
PHP is becoming more awesome every year with every new release.
Second, I think there are many devs that started with PHP, and we know how shitty our code was in the beginning. (Those who do not yet recognise this, no worries, just wait a couple of years and then look back.) And since php is very flexible, it allows for pretty bad design errors. So I think there is a lot of bad code there written in PHP, that gets attention. People who see that will generalize and blame PHP, but it's not the language's problem.
And the worst problem of all is that PHP allows for the shitty code to actually work.
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I suspect there's multiple reasons.
First, I believe those haters never tried anything like PHP 5 and come from the preceding era. Honestly, versions since 5.3 are decent.
True, there is much legacy in PHP and quirks here and there. But man, jus look at JS. It's a ridiculous mess, and how popular it is nowdays!
PHP is becoming more awesome every year with every new release.
Second, I think there are many devs that started with PHP, and we know how shitty our code was in the beginning. (Those who do not yet recognise this, no worries, just wait a couple of years and then look back.) And since php is very flexible, it allows for pretty bad design errors. So I think there is a lot of bad code there written in PHP, that gets attention. People who see that will generalize and blame PHP, but it's not the language's problem.
And the worst problem of all is that PHP allows for the shitty code to actually work.