[Nextgrid]

I agree that PHP is bad in certain ways, even though I started with PHP before transitioning to other languages.

But honestly, every language has to make some trade-offs. Even if PHP has some things that are bad design choices as opposed to trade-offs, it can still be worthwhile to put up with them if you have an existing codebase written in it or want to take advantage of libraries that don't exist in other languages.

As a result I don't consider any language as bad or old school. They might have downsides but 1) the upsides might outweigh them in certain use-cases and 2) any competent developer should be able to make something good with any Turing-complete language so I don't judge by the language alone, and especially not by the "hype factor" of the language.