Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "ThePrimeagen"
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@jaredsmith5826 Well, getting more serious now, it actually improved a lot. Since PHP 7.0 (now we're at version 8.1), I'd say it's a decent language. Much more static typing, less bugs, less exotic behaviours and hidden errors because 0.1% might want that feature, and general modern features.
It has pretty regular releases, though it also followed the extremely annoying and stupid trend of only supporting a version for a couple of years, but other than that, it's going well.
There's still some of that haystack, needle and needle, haystack nonsense, because backwards compatibility (ugly or not, there's millions of websites written in PHP, so backwards compatibility is very important).
I like it as a language because you can easily grow with it. You can start by simply having a really simple program with several functions and ifs and fors, fully procedural. And you can expand easily and at your own pace towards fully featured OOP style, with namespaces, interfaces and traits, with autoloading. You get the idea.
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