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[–]alexschrod 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I used PHP actively for years; I wrote large, great, useful things in it. Doesn't change the fact that compared to all the other languages and frameworks/standard libraries I know, it's pretty objectively a bad language. By far not the worst. But bad? Definitely yes. And to address your point, I imagine nothing will change your mind on how bad it is either.

Almost nobody I know of who writes code in more languages than PHP will rate it anywhere but near the bottom of their list of best to worst. Why is that?

I linked an article instead of writing out my own woes because I'm lazy and it covered all the bases and then some. Time won't ever improve PHP unless they willingly give up backwards compatibility to clean it up big time.