Would people please stop shitting on php. It's no better nor worse than let's say, ruby. It gets shit done. It is a valid tool very widely used in the wild.
PHP can be a bit of a punching bag, even when it's not topical. But it's not exactly unwarranted.
If people have valid criticisms of modern PHP then by all means air them, but don't go ragging on the language in 2019 for problems with PHP written in 2004.
Reputations can be unfair. But there are many characteristics that many developers still find unsavory about PHP, a lot of them fundamental to the language.
It's a bit silly to put a time cap on those characteristics that just aren't going to change. It's really silly to assume people are going to change their tune on a tech stack many actively choose to avoid and have no way of caring or seeing what's changed within the last 3 or so years.
Unless the software developers are paid to wax poetically about those unsavory features rather than affect whatever gets the $$ in the door to pay the software developers salaries "Lolz, lookz at PHPz stupid." is irrelevant.
Yes, the language has it's warts, but if you think $language doesn't, you're just new to it.
There are many large PHP projects that generate tons of revenue. New frameworks like Laravel and Symfony 4 make whipping out MVPs that can scale pretty damn easy.
Okay, but that doesn't negate any of the criticisms about PHP nor does it suddenly wipe out decades of built up reputation.
learn your tools.
Invoking platitudes like "the right tool for the job" is irrelevant and isn't going to make that history go away suddenly.
Because no other language has a history?
Look at C it has a coloured history, it has a reputation like any other language, C vs C++, it has bad things like the lack of memory safety, it lacks concepts like object orientation and so on and so on.
No PHP is not special in its flaws.
Unfixable things remain though and PHP will keep serving as a bad example in the future.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is whom you should hire as your tech leadership. He will get your product shipped in a reasonable amount of time, rather than rewrite an app that is making you $2 million a month in Go because some new log ingestion framework wants protobufs so you can query "what are the new browser agents that we have never seen before".
It even says "(JOKING)" in the article.
You converted me. I will stop whining and go code my homepage in haskell. That should keep me busy for a year or so.