[Cthulhu_]

I disagree; it's not the language that's bad, it's the community. Too much tech debt that was never removed, too many people that profess to be experts on the internet and give bad examples, and too many people full of themselves building and rebuilding their own frameworks. That was the issue 10, 15 years ago anyway, things have improved but it means people have to pick established frameworks like Laravel.

[crote]

You can't really separate a language from its community, though.

You're getting paid to deliver business logic, which means most work is going to be gluing together libraries. This inherently means relying on community-written code, and related stuff like documentation and StackOverflow answers.

If the community is bad, the language isn't worth using.