Message from JavaScript discussions
September 2017
— PHP will probably never disappear. It's not a bad language, there are just more popular options I guess. But it will still be used a lot 🤔
It's still the slowest of any language that is actually used for real apps. And the shittiest in every fucking way you look at it
— It's not a bad language
WRONG
— AAAAAAh
— It's fucking terrible
— Yeah, but so is JS. The difference is that JD got popular these last year's, but it doesn't make it a good language
— A good language is C#, for example
— But nonetheless people use PHP and JS, and the web is full of it
— The most perfect language I ever saw was scheme
— LMAO
— Wat
— Yeah, PHP is both objectively and semantically harder to use than most other languages. It might have uses in text processing (I know a Googler who uses it to make books) or any number of "best-fit" use cases, but that doesn't detract from the ever present problems it has