80% of the article is still true. The biggest:<p>* It&#x27;s 2016 and PHP still doesn&#x27;t have a module system, Python had one in &#x27;91, Perl had one in &#x27;94, Ruby had one in &#x27;95<p>* inequality operators still have no === equivalent<p>* sorting is still indeterministic when you have null values because NULL &lt; -1, and NULL == 0<p>* arrays are the only containers in the language and they simultaneously act as sets, lists, and associative arrays which fucks up almost all array functions because you don&#x27;t know what they will do<p>* PHP has had exceptions for almost 10 years now and a lot of functions still require you to use their specific error function to tell if it failed. So if you don&#x27;t call say json_last_error, your code will SILENTLY return the wrong thing