Comment by senfiaj

> Despite all the critiquing I've done in this article, I still think the amount of hate PHP gets is undeserved.

As a person who also codes in PHP at work, I still dislike the language syntax part. JS/TS also has terrible parts, but IMHO, compared to PHP, I don't face them as much and they are much easier to avoid when you have enough knowledge and stick to good parts.

As the author mentioned, in my experience PHPs arrays are quite annoying to work with, and you can't do anything about them. This C-like procedural syntax for array and string manipulations makes discoverability harder. Some functions (in_array, implode, shuffle, trim, stripos, lcfirst, etc) still have inconsistent namings despite many of them have a standard prefix in their name, such as array_ or str_.

I mean OK, PHP is still widely used, has new features and is still and far from dying (mostly for reasons other than syntax), but please don't pretend that it hasn't some issues with basic stuff which are still there even in 8.x version.

Just to not write a full article, you can read here: https://waspdev.com/articles/2025-06-12/my-honest-opinion-ab...

If interested, I also listed some annoyances of JS: https://waspdev.com/articles/2025-04-16/what-i-dislike-in-ja...