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by wr0ng 4664 days ago
There's always lots of PHP hating going on from language snobs, mostly from people with toy projects in the latest language du jour (was Ruby, then Node, Scala, now Clojure and Go).

Fact is PHP, for all its faults, still runs far more websites than all of those others combined and then some (http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag... - eg PHP 80%, Ruby 0.5%, Python 0.2%)
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canadiancreed 4664 days ago
The "it's popular, hence it's great" argument isn't a good one to use to evangelize though, at least not by itself. Case in point, what operating system is still the most popular by far? Popular doesn't always equate to best.
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wr0ng 4664 days ago
You're right, but it's a strawman argument as I never said that. "it's incredibly well used, but it has faults" is nearer the mark.
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