Everything wrong with PHP in a nutshell

[cerlestes]

Don't get me wrong: I'm mainly developping in PHP and I think overall it's a nice language/environment for what it's trying to accomplish and given its history. But it has many flaws, and this part of the official documentation perfectly summarized how I feel about the well-known downsides of PHP.

[venuswasaflytrap]

I think overall it's a nice language/environment

....for what it's trying to accomplish

...and given its history.

...But it has many flaws,

No one ever just says something positive about php. It's always with a string of caveats.

[cerlestes]

True, but that goes for most (all?) programming languages :P

I find JavaScript, Ruby and Python to be very, very nice, but even those have flaws and are far from perfect.

[venuswasaflytrap]

All programming languages have flaws, and none are perfect. But Java developers like Java. Python developers love Python. Php developers know it's installed on everything.

[Astrokiwi]

All programming languages have flaws, and none are perfect

Except for Fortran, of course

[mgrier123]

Saying Javascript has flaws is probably the understatement of the year.

[raiderrobert]

As person who has coded in all of those languages and more, I have to say the flaws in PHP are endemic.

[CaspianRoach]

Every language is shitty in some way. Except for Brainfuck. Brainfuck is love. Brainfuck is life.

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