[criemen]

I'm not so sure: If you think about hiring talent, there's a perception in the wider industry about PHP (rightly or wrongly, let's not debate that here) that'll prevent access to a lot of great developers. So even if not warranted anymore on technical merits anymore, in terms of employer branding, I'd say migrating away from PHP is helping.

[adamors]

Right on, I wrote a lot of PHP 15 years ago and I swore I’ll never get back to it. I’m a much better developer now and I’ll actively avoid any company doing PHP in 2025.

[const_cast]

PHP is a very different language than 15 years ago, and large applications are pretty much indistinguishable from Java or dotnet. The type system is more cohesive than JS or even Python at this point.

[adamors]

But still, why would I work with it? The language is crap, I guess now there are enough abstractions to hide it but they can do only so much. You're still writing $variables and calling the array_* methods etc. at some point. I'd rather work with languages that don't have this legacy crap with them. I also avoid Perl fwiw.

[const_cast]

Every language has legacy crap, or at least all the ones that matter.