PHP in 2020
PHP is, and always has been a practical language.<p>7.4 has been especially exciting with the introduction of FFI. Few other languages even have runtime FFI, and in most cases you have to do the binding stuff in C.<p>I even ported a terminal-mode text editor (which uses FFI somewhat) from C to PHP: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.timshomepage.net&#x2F;timw4mail&#x2F;php-kilo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.timshomepage.net&#x2F;timw4mail&#x2F;php-kilo</a><p>I would guess most of the PHP haters got stuck working on Wordpress, or someone&#x27;s old business app, or they just hate PHP because it&#x27;s popular to do so.