The biggest problem of these rants is that they come from people stuck in the old days of PHP. They either don’t care or they don’t want to admit that PHP actually evolves at a very fast pace, both at the language level but also at the community level. In fact, it evolves much faster than any other language or web platform. It has not always been the case, but the last 5 years have been an amazing journey for PHP.

I agree. Most of the people who write hate posts about PHP still picture it as unmaintainable spaghetti code, and have no idea that in certain circles people are writing serious, high-quality applications in it today.

Even though it does have certain drawbacks and I myself would rather code in Java, there’s no point swimming against the current. PHP is definitely not about to leave us, and instead of denying that I’d rather make use of it.