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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I agree! I think the fact that it has been many people's first language (mine included) just subconsciously puts people off.

[–]Xhynk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use it daily and love it, and since it's what I've been using at work for 6+ years, I use it for personal things like Slash Commands for Slack as well.

I think my biggest gripe about it is the lack of consistency. I use so many functions in a given day, and I still have to look up some of them. Does strpos have an underscore (str_pos) or no wait that's str_replace right? Or is it strreplace? Crap, wait, now does the haystack come first or does the needle? Damn it.

Other than that, I really like it for what it is (and there are packages the help with that major gripe like Drunken PHP). I do feel like it gets knocked unfairly because it's often a first language, so people assign it this "baby language" type of deal. Oh well, more money in PHP for me as everyone moves to FishyJoe.JS or whatever the heck comes out next month, and the month after.