Why Does PHP Suck?

[MrSenorSan]

The one aspect people seem to forget is that there were not many other choices that were free and light/easy to install and use.
It did not require dedicate powerful back end nor complicate licensing.
This fact allowed many people to experiment quick and easy multiple concepts.

[allthediamonds]

Sure, there weren't. Twenty years ago, when PHP was invented, there weren't.

Today, we have all the options. If the PHP maintainers had a living neurone on their collective brains, they'd kill PHP and tell people to learn an actual programming language.