PHP in 2021
Before you call me a troll, know that I worked with PHP for two+ years maintaining both legacy codebases and writing new code with Laravel.<p>My question is: why would anyone want to start something new with PHP in 2021? Is there anything that it does better than any other language&#x2F;ecosystem? I feel like the community is full of (but not exclusively composed of—there are some gems like Caleb Porzio who write good stuff) people who just care about hacking something together and, as long as it works, it&#x27;s fine. They care nothing about elegance and have but a dim conception of larger CS&#x2F;SE principles.<p>For example, why would you write something in PHP when you&#x27;ve got an excellent choice between Ruby&#x2F;Rails or Elixir&#x2F;Phoenix&#x2F;LiveView, both of which are fantastic, and, especially in the case of the Elixir&#x2F;Phoenix stack, <i>really</i> developer friendly, easy to set up and deploy, etc. and also have solid foundations?<p>I&#x27;m glad to see PHP getting better—it will certainly improve life for those maintaining old PHP projects that are agile enough to upgrade—but I really see no reason to not choose a better tool in this day and age.<p>(You may now call me a troll if you see fit. I stand by what I said though. :-)