[ehnto]

Having worked in PHP and Ruby, the parallels to the hate is obvious to me. Enough people have done enough meaningful work in both languages that any possible downside or nitpick has been discovered and voiced.

It's like when a game/band/tv show becomes popular, the more popular the more toxic the community becomes, and the louder the hate seems to be. I don't want to pull names out of hats, but pick any of the most used languages and you'll be able to find people banging on about objectively bad parts of the language, and yet they're still the most popular languages.

Admittedly, I don't really prefer Ruby over other languages, but just like PHP I wish people would stop being so dramatic over it. It's plenty good enough to get shit done, if someone likes working with it power to them.