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by Draiken 5096 days ago
But it still doesn't make PHP a good programming language.

I am doomed to fix legacy PHP projects for the rest of my life, because they are so badly written they simply cannot be upgraded to newer versions of PHP.

Yes it's popular and I've even seen designer jobs asking for php knowledge (lol), but that just tells us why it's so hated!

The new PHP might be great, but all those numbers the article has don't tell us how many of those are using newer versions of PHP. I bet 80-90% of everything written in PHP is STILL <= 5.2

Why is PHP so big? anyone can use it. Why is it so bad? When people actually learn how to program, it simply lacks everything.

I have been stuck with PHP for 4 years now and if at any point my boss lets me fix these projects, I'd run away from PHP as fast as possible...

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> it simply lacks everything

Can you elaborate on that a little please? What does PHP not have that all the other choices offer that make such a big difference?