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by ams6110 3857 days ago
fending off security issues

This is my general experience with all platforms and operating systems. You have to keep up to date.

PHP was early on the web scene, and like ASP it encouraged a lot of bad practices (like concatenating user input into SQL strings) before people knew better.

These days, in the hands of a competent developer, it's no worse than any other mainstream stack as far as security goes.