> PHP is still very much in demand and used widely so I wouldn't call it crap.

So is cocaine.

PHP is popular because it is easy to get started with.

PHP is in demand because popular software was made in PHP.

Those are good qualities of PHP. PHP's insufficiencies as a type-safe and performant language are not among those reasons.

> Lot of the points you described seem unrelated to PHP but just incomplete views based on your own premature judgements because you dislike PHP.

I'm not sure what makes you think that my judgement is premature.

I wrote PHP for a lot of years since 2004.

I don't normally bash PHP. It is too easy, after all.

But when some blog post says that PHP is a strong choice in 2022 because of strict typing and performance, I have to beg to differ. You will see commenters consistently downplay performance as "you don't really need performance on average", as if not needing performance constitutes having it. And similarly, you will see commenters say that it does have enough typing, which is of course subjective. But what is "fully typed", as the article refers to? If I have an array, can I say what kind of thing goes into the array, and will it be a type error if I stuff something else in there? Can I declare something as not nullable? If not, what's particularly "full" about this?