Absolutely, PHP was a pioneer, and it was a very good language by the criteria of 15 years ago. I think nobody in their right mind criticizes that. But the times have changed, we now know much better ways to do some things (the hindsight you're talking about), and let's be honest, most of the community and ecosystem is there by inertia, not by explicit will (which is ok). Learning new tools is hard.
I meant for a particular purpose: hacking together a dynamic homepage in one night. Of course if you want to write a microframework with it, you'll encounter weird roadblocks. You could say that the reason people who hack a homepage in one night don't complain is simply that they don't know any better, and there is a bit of truth in that argument -- but still, many people used PHP quite successfully back then.
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Absolutely, PHP was a pioneer, and it was a very good language by the criteria of 15 years ago. I think nobody in their right mind criticizes that. But the times have changed, we now know much better ways to do some things (the hindsight you're talking about), and let's be honest, most of the community and ecosystem is there by inertia, not by explicit will (which is ok). Learning new tools is hard.
I meant for a particular purpose: hacking together a dynamic homepage in one night. Of course if you want to write a microframework with it, you'll encounter weird roadblocks. You could say that the reason people who hack a homepage in one night don't complain is simply that they don't know any better, and there is a bit of truth in that argument -- but still, many people used PHP quite successfully back then.