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To be fair, this has been a while coming. There's so much PHP bashing that takes place now it's ridiculous. People take inefficiencies of the language from 5 years ago, tart them up as crimes against humanity, and then pretend that the only reason PHP is more popular than their language is because most people aren't smart enough to code in their language.

Fabien, though I sometimes disagree with his technical choices, is one of the brightest stars in PHP right now and he's just putting forward a somewhat modest defense of PHP.



A number of these critical articles point out problems from 5 years ago... which are also still problems today.

I would have more sympathy if it were clearly evident that serious bugs were taken seriously rather than being ignored for a decade


Do you have an example of one of these serious bugs?


Every time one is posted (at least once a month), you and others complain loudly about how PHP is being unfairly picked on.

You can't be satisfied




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