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> PHP just happens to be good at getting stuff done fast, so it's found all over the place, and thus has a lot of eyeballs on it. The negativity is a byproduct of it's usefulness and staying power - the price of popularity, if you will.

I don't like arguments like these because they're a tu quoque without even bothering to point out flaws in a different thing. It implicitly states that progress is impossible, that all languages will always be as bad, and nothing can ever improve because once a technology is widely-used, design flaws will magically appear. If you really believe that, write your next website backend in FORTRAN IV.

It was lazy argumentation when it was people saying Linux was just as buggy as Windows Me and it's lazy argumentation now.

>>msla+(OP)
I accept PHP has flaws, as do other languages. But I feel PHP gets an unfair amount of criticism, given that it's "flawed" implementation of a programming language happens to run a big chunk of the web today.

> Progress is impossible

Huh? My very last sentence implies quite the opposite.

>>msla+(OP)
> It implicitly states that progress is impossible

PHP has made huge strides in progress over the last decade.