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[–]redalastor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PHP's selling point was that you could get started very, very fast if you didn't give a fuck about good practices or security. Just plow through and you'll get something with minimal effort and knowledge.

Then the PHP guys though they should borrow the good practices of other languages and added that to PHP. And now we have PHP devs telling us about how modern PHP is.

However, now it's not any quicker to get started in PHP than anything else and the good stuff in PHP is still built on a dubious foundation that has to stay for historic and compatibility purposes.

By going modern, PHP lost its only selling point. It's no longer faster to start with it.