

A lot of PHP's bad reputation is thanks to WordPress misuse and some other bad practices of programming in the core of WordPress. Any other thing out of this scope has a better tool. Please, oh god please, don't use WordPress for everything. OK, got it! I want to write my new cool application in PHP. Can be used in projects of all the scales: little, medium, and big projects could be written in PHP.The PHP staff isn't throwing new functionalities that break some old ones and they have a very professional roadmap of releases. Nice documentation and support, the community is very big and kind, and they love to help.Some big players, among others, are using PHP or some components of the language: PHP 5 lost support this past year, and migrating from one to another has a low rate of issues. If you are a current PHP user and you have a version lower than 7, please migrate. You can see a list of the improvements here. It has a bunch of helpers methods to do more while writing less. Now PHP is insanely fast and has type hinting for methods and return types, making the language more consistent. That's why new programmers don't see PHP as an valid option for developing their projects.įor your information, PHP 7 has overcome so many past issues and improved speed. PHP has a bad reputation among many programmers - some of them because of the language's past mistakes, lack of standardization, security issues, and code styling. PHP? Why I would use this pitiful language?
