I think PHP is a <i>great</i> language, not just a good one, and its competitors like Python and Ruby offer little to nothing over PHP (and vice-versa). They&#x27;re all in the same boat. Same programming style (OOP), same constructs, same runtime models (interpreted, JIT). I&#x27;m so fucking tired of people who have not programmed in PHP claiming <i>anything</i>, let alone that it&#x27;s a bad language. I can make that claim about any language currently in existence with plenty of &quot;evidence&quot; to back it up, but my purpose here isn&#x27;t to annoy. The only thing I can deduce from posts like this is that people lash out against PHP because they get off on being closed-minded and trolling others.