[jtreminio]

I've noticed that on HN, in particular, many commenters "dislike" PHP due to misconceptions or very outdated information they have about the language.

I've responded to people who didn't realize PHP has had first-class objects for years, has a very good community-driven package manager, is easy to unit test, scales very easily and very well, and has nifty features like closures and traits.

In short, it's mostly people who have no idea what they're talking about complaining about a language they've either never used or used years ago when it was completely different.

That said, there are a few people around here who have proper criticisms about PHP that doesn't center around "the order of parameters is too hard to remember!". YMMV.