[xgb84j]

People dislike PHP because its standard library had many inconsistencies and interesting design decision that no sane programmer would ever even think off, like all random numbers being odd (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31612082/why-does-mt-ran...).

Many of these decisions revolve around the authors not wanting their functions to fail under any circumstances. This is nice for beginners but quickly hurts more than it helps in larger projects as it obfuscates bugs.

[paul_f]

I hear that too, and frankly seems a dumb reason not to use a language. Does it get the job done, can you build value quickly, yes and yes

[jbboehr]

AFAICT, that behavior was fixed with the release of PHP 7.1 in 2016.