PHP in 2022
I started my career in PHP ~15 years ago trying to do OOP in PHP 4.x. That was &quot;fun&quot;.<p>In the meantime I switched to other stacks but I&#x27;ve been keeping a distant eye on how PHP was evolving and I still am involved with PHP projects to a certain degree, though rarely at code level.<p>I really appreciate the effort put into fixing most of the things I hated about the language, though at times it felt like the language and some of the frameworks were trying too hard to copy the Java ecosystem, all while Java itself was starting to modernize.<p>I&#x27;m curious what is the value proposition of the latest PHP version(s). Why would I choose PHP when starting a greenfield project? I know one of the easiest answers is that there&#x27;s a huge amount of developers worldwide that know PHP, but apart from this obvious reason is there anything else that would make someone choose PHP ahead of other stacks?