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@newt@stereophonic.space @twinspin6@outerheaven.club @mold@yourwalls.today I have not much bad to say about PHP nowadays. I unironically think it is one of the best option for any software that needs to run using FastCGI.

It's fully stateless, so perfect for anything that mostly handles HTTP requests. It's really fast and optimized (compared to other interpreted like Perl and Ruby). It has a very easy to read and recognizable syntax. And it is also one of the only loosely-typed languages that actually makes their type system make sense in my opinion. PHP Composer is also one of the better dependency managers I've ever used (especially compared to dogshit like npm or bundler).

In my experience the people hating on PHP today are either people who have last used PHP 5.6 on some legacy project or zoomer JS soydevs who just heard "PHP bad" on Leddit.