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> I don't really understand why in 2020 there's still this kind of blind hatred against this language.

I don't either, but what I also don't understand is why in 2020 anyone would use PHP over many available vastly superior alternatives.

Other than keeping old stuff running, why do people keep beating this dead horse? I just don't get it.

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Perhaps some developers who already know PHP want to get on with building things instead spending time comparing language penis lengths?

Probably the package/ framework ecosystem. There is also a self reinforcing quality, there are a lot of devs which in turn encourage people to do projects in PHP to access those devs.

It depends on your goal. I personally think PHP still wins for a solo developers in speed of feature creation. Think of the ratio of business value per development cost. Someone should find a way to objectively measure this.

Then there's this, choose boring technology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444594

Same here. Sure, PHP in 2020 is a mostly passable language. But then next to it you have Java/Kotlin/Scala, Go, Clojure, Node w/ TypeScript, even Elixir is pretty awesome.

Though, to be honest, I'd probably use PHP over Node even with TypeScript because the Node ecosystem is such garbage.

You just have to really like Laravel, I guess, to choose PHP in 2020. Which is totally fair. I haven't used Laravel, but people do rave about it.

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