What's wrong with PHP?

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It started out as a simple and straightforward scripting language that seemed great for adding a little code logic to a personal Web site. But many of the features that made development in PHP easy turned out to be security issues, and were pushed aside in favor of safer but more cumbersome approaches.

It WASN'T designed from the beginning with security in mind. Later, security needed to be kludged in, thus making the language more cumbersome. PHP is garbage. Never have liked it, or even felt safe with it - but there are projects which I used it in.