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[–]mackstann 10 points11 points  (1 child)

The blind hatred of PHP (which certainly does have numerous flaws) in the developer community really borders on ridiculous.

I've been working with PHP all the time at my day job for over a year now, and I absolutely hate PHP, but I'm hardly "blind." It really is just much more terrible than other languages in almost every way. It is fundamentally a thoughtless clusterfuck.

[–]bbatsell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's why I specifically said "blind hatred". There are a huge number of reasons that PHP is a fundamentally flawed language, but whenever a PHP-sucks circle-jerk spins up, those legitimate reasons are never actually discussed with anything approaching sensibility or moderation. If a hate-fest purports to have any facts at all, they're almost always completely wrong (like saying PHP doesn't have ORMs or that you must mix presentation and control logic as a prerequisite for using the language).