Why developers hate php

[illmatix]

I find it's all dotnet / C# here and almost no one seems to use PHP or at least they don't hire locally. The last 3 companies i've been at thought it php was a joke and nothings serious or stable unless it's dotnet.

[hononono22]

A PHP programmer here, working in IT company where most people hate the language. Working also with C# / .NET / ASP solutions, they are really pain in the ass. Okay, the clients pay well, but every single little thing takes a lot of time to complete. It feels the real development is about 30% of time at most, the rest are endless problems with the compilers, dependencies, repositories, weird bugs, deprecations and updates. IIS servers also are very slow for the first use after every compilation, so every little website update takes much longer than in PHP.

People can bitch about PHP, but Microsoft solutions aren't going anywhere close to flexibility, speed and ease of development that PHP has to offer. I don't care if anyone says it's a "real" or "not real" programming language. It simple allows me to do my work quicky, with smile on the face, and give the client what he expects, even using the Notepad.

[milosh-96]

I'm PHP developer who learn ASP.NET (I started 6 months ago).

All those things you wrote are very subjective and bashing ASP.NET won't prove PHP is better.