Used PHP in a Hackathon was made fun of and it made me feel really shitty
I have been using PHP professionally for 7 years now and I absolutely love it. The community grew up from the old days when I started playing with it (almost 15 years ago). There are incredible pieces of software built with it, and nowadays the language is unrecognisable from the state it was in when it gained the bad reputation. i think Symfony 4 is a wonderful framework and it allows us to use PHP to build things that most would think it&#x27;s impossible in the language of spaghetti code.<p>Yes, there are still a lot o people out there that hack some very questionable code together in PHP but we shouldn&#x27;t dismiss it like this. I&#x27;ve tried multiple languages (C#, Java, javascript) and I have to say PHP is my favourite so far (you guys can comment on this as much as you like, I still like it a lot).<p>It&#x27;s disheartening to hear that in a hackathon people got &quot;bullied&quot; for using a programming language. You would never pick upon a mechanic for using a screwdriver instead of a chisel or something similar, as long as he can achieve the same thing.<p>Also, I can&#x27;t help to notice a trend of ...&quot;brogramming&quot;, where if you don&#x27;t use the newest and coolest tech you&#x27;re treated as an outcast, bullied and made fun of; it&#x27;s quite sad if you ask me.