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by weatherlight 1204 days ago
1) You can write bad code in any language.

2) it’s a functional language. There are no objects. PHP doesn’t have guardrails for referential transparency or data immutability. These are first class concerns in a language that ergonomic to do functional programming in. PHP has never had these. It’s completely different and you are comparing apples to oranges.