Cute quip but you've not made your point. The PHP core team have added numerous large core language improvements to continue to enable very modern software development, many do in fact touch on points in the article. Perhaps the authors pet-peeves are just not that important to the core team and to the people are using the language for real work.

Can you suggest another language that effectively allows inline templating like PHP does, and has a huge set of libraries available?

PHP runs more of the "web" than you probably realise - some of the highest trafficked websites in the world, in fact. It's fine done properly. The bad press from 20 years ago is pretty much unwarranted these days. Also, if wordpress had been written in RoR or Perl/something else, plenty of the PHP bad press would have been avoided.

> I've yet to meet a good developer who likes the language

I've yet to meet a Clojure developer capable of actually solving business problems. All they do is pontificate about how perfect FP is and how terrible every other language is, despite accomplishing nothing whatsoever themselves.

Speaks more to your lack of judgement abilities than a rule or trend. Do you get many applying for a job supporting your todo app? Curious how much mrr ZimTik has reached.

haha, sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy. someone says they like php and you think "wow this person sucks"