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My slightly elitist view:

I don't think (the vast majority of) the people using PHP should build Internet-connected software at all. The risk for massive privacy intrusions caused by programmer incompetency is too great, IMO.

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Your answer seems awfully ignorant (that's often what people mean by elitist). "Internet-connected" and "privacy intrusion" aren't qualified terms so I can only assume you just like to have a punching post. Not uncommon since ASP is effectively gone. It might be of some value to notice your answer wasn't related to the question.

"Qualified terms"? What is that? Google hasn't heard of the expression, so I assume you just made it up.

You can assume whatever you like. There is no quality to those terms. No metrics or relative value. I know you made them up.

Pretty elitist. Also slightly outdated.

> Also slightly outdated.

Yeah, cause PHP keeps getting more and more relevant each year!

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=php

Hahaha I feel for your downvotes but cheers for saying something that probably needs to be said.

PHP is the COBOL of web application development. It's built for an era of websites that's no longer relevant. As with perl, unless you're building onto an existing project there's better options now for almost anything.

I don't know of of any major dev consulting shop building stuff with PHP anymore. The likes of C#, Java, Node, Python, Go, and Ruby makes PHP an afterthought.

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