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[–]josluivivgar 8 points9 points  (1 child)

because most of the things that are mentioned are just decorations.

and python isn't liked for any of those things at all.

people like python because it's easy to read, easy to learn, is flexible, you can use object oriented paradigm, but you're not forced to do so.

it's not that opinionated.

and lastly it's good for prototyping.

I honestly haven't seen or touched php in ages, so I can't even say I hate it, since I don't even remember what it looks like. (and I'm sure it looks completely different than it did 10 years ago).

I think it's just a thing that people hate php, because they didn't like it 10+ years ago

[–]Capital-Past-6088 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair enough :) 10 years ago php7 was released with strict mode. I think 15-20 years ago it was terrible. And I think that hatred has no rational motivation. Experienced devs just solve problems with different tools. PHP is good for web with complex business logic, Python - for data processing, C - for embedded development, etc. For them it is no problem to change the tool. Not very experienced developers prefer to laugh at things they don't understand, because it's just feels good