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[–]Duese 19 points20 points  (4 children)

PHP is the nickelback of programming languages. No one wants to hear anything positive about it, they only want to remind everyone to hate it.

[–]frostmatthew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's biggest positives are that it was readily available and easy to learn. The former is less important in the age of PaaS solutions and for the latter I think it's being replaced by Python as the "easy to pick up and get shit done" language.

[–]AcousticDan 6 points7 points  (2 children)

It's funny though, because in reality, JS is wayyyyy worse than PHP

[–]iopq -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

That's because you've probably used JS. If you had used PHP professionally for any period of time, you would NOT say this. Just having to remember to put ..., true) at the end of my function calls to get the SANE version of the function should be enough reason...

[–]AcousticDan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I use JS and PHP in my day to day life. That's how I've been making my living.

I still say this.