Have those issues long been solved?<p>I&#x27;m not snarking; I honestly don&#x27;t know. I tried using PHP years ago, threw up my hands in horror, and have never touched it since. I felt a little bad about that, but a few years back Eevee&#x27;s &quot;PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design&quot; [1] persuaded me I wasn&#x27;t missing much, and that my &quot;learn a new language&quot; time was better spent on Scala and then Python.<p>So what&#x27;s changed in the last few years that makes it 100% as good as Ruby or Python for web development?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eev.ee&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;php-a-fractal-of-bad-design&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eev.ee&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;php-a-fractal-of-bad-design&#x2F;</a>