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> PHP is C-like and written in C so the hate is funny to me.

You didn't realize how many people hate C? (Like any other popular language, yes)

I've being used PHP since it was Personal Home Page (3.x or something). The reason I moved away from it, is it is language make up. Some point around 4 it try to become Java OO style (ok ES6 is trying to do that too). The main reason moving away from it is because would like to have language that has function as a first class citizen, and JS seems to fit the bill. Once I found the joy of developing with proper closure and using function as a first class citizen PHP just doesn't appeal to me. The best things about PHP is it's templating system. And with EJS or similar there is really no reason to use PHP anymore.

PHP supports first class functions though?

You right they are supporting it since 8.1.0.

While PHP is adding a First class callable syntax in 8.1, first-class-functions have been available in PHP since 5.3.0 (Released Jun 2009) going by the Wikipedia definition:

> This means the language supports passing functions as arguments to other functions, returning them as the values from other functions, and assigning them to variables or storing them in data structures.

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59293198/368328, https://3v4l.org/rQGk2

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