| It's like an ugly C. It's a perfectly reasonable choice for web development, just like a Chevy Caprice is a perfectly reasonable car for a taxi service (as evidenced by the thousands of them in NYC, still plodding along). You'd still rather ride in a Mercedes E430 taxi (long time European standard)... unless you had never experienced both, in which case you probably think the Caprice is just fine. And if you knew Ruby, Python, Java, C#, Kotlin, or better yet F#, Clojure, or Elixir, you'd most likely enjoy using one of them rather than PHP. There are three reasons to use PHP. 1. it works 2. it is well integrated with web servers 3. you can find some of the cheapest contract labor who know how to program in it (compared to other, less common/popular languages) Bonus 4. you need to extend Wordpress by writing a plugin or theme (and Wordpress is the Caprice of CMSs...) |