[curiously]

PHP seems to attract the bottom of the barrel "brogrammer" types.

Kayne West of PHP. That says it all.

[dang]

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[steve-rodrigue]

PHP is just a tool that makes it very easy to create quick websites using logic directly in html. I totally agree that this is a bad practice and should be avoided. This is why it attracted a lot of script kiddies at its beginning.

On the othr hand, according to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer ) a "brogrammer" is a social programmer, normally attracted in hacking jobs at startups. Therefore, I believe PHP doesn't attract "brogrammers" since most startups do not work with PHP anymore. I believe new languages attracts more "brogrammers" than PHP.

PS: Please keep in mind that, nowadays, there are a lot of good programmers that write clean PHP code. Just have a look at the Symfony2 code source.

[philstu]

I'm far more than the typical user.

Oh and I know Go, so I must be super intelligent, because only super intelligent people use Go.