I'm a self deprecating PHP developer.

..there's a decent pun in this thought, somewhere..

"I wished I could read!"

@ImJustTatan but now you dont anymore. 😁

I feel so sorry for PHP. It always gets such stick and you know what, it's a decent language. It's quirky in places, and it's not as fast (without opcode caching and such) as precompiled languages, but it's easy to pick up, it's incredibly well documented, and it's ubiquitous (though this is more a benefit for companies than individuals using it).

I wish so much that PHP 7 would fork into a LTS version and a 'new projects' version, with the latter having the balls to fix all the weirdness and turning it into a solid language. I've used JS frameworks and tried that way of working a few times and I always gravitate back to PHP because it's got literally decades of standardisation and structure built into it.

Nah, php with modern framework is awesome!

@sheepz I mean even though the language continues to improve, I'll probably never stop mocking PHP

@ajwilco shame on you, js is better subject for mocking :)

@sheepz ¿Por que no los dos?

@ajwilco after learning most of your coding knowledge from php, now you're turning him down? lol