Seeing a lot of hate against PHP here. It used to be a shitty language with no decent frameworks, update yourselves please, it's getting embarrassing for you. WordPress, laravel, Zend. That's 60% of the web. We run this shit.

Say that to Javascript.

I love PHP though.

And shit is the keyword, popularity does not equal quality. (I work with it daily, its popularity is due to momentum, PHP had its place in the 90s but the language is utter shit), Laravel and Symfony make it slightly less shitty but the amount of overhead they add is insane.

Do yourself a favour, learn something else, it will help preserve your sanity in the long run.

@ItsNotMyFault now that certainly isn't supportive. You're allowed an opinion, but gee let the guy do what he wants. PHP has it's place and uses. Stop bandwagoning.

You forgot devrant ;)

@JammehCow Its not bandwagoning,

PHP might be easy to get started with but it is a brutally difficult language to use safely and correctly and on big projects that becomes a huge headache

Take a simple task like converting a string, $foo into an array of characters, $bar

How would you do that correctly in PHP ?

What would you expect a junior developer to do in PHP ?

Are you willing to review every single line of code they write in detail to make sure they do it correctly ?

@ItsNotMyFault str_split("String"). Not that hard if you ask me

@Dacexi The function you used splits the string into bytes, not characters, str_split('大家好'); returns an array with 9 unprintable characters and not ['大', '家', '好'] as it would in any sane language.