Rants about PHP being mediocre are based on version 5.6 and below. PHP 7 is different beast.

And php 7.4 is bae ♥️

Mediocre beast

No, rants about php being awful is based on 5.x 7.4 is mediocre.

I have to agree, I used to hate PHP when I was a kid, now I have to work on a PHP project and its actually so much more comfortable to develop in PHP than to go through the hassle of react/java building and restarting and live reloads... arggh...

Didn't people say the same thing about PHP5?

True, but there are better things now.. not node though

Bitch please, you want mediocre, go work on a PHP4 project - yes they are still in the wild.

PHP5.x was the stepping stones we needed to get out of the dark times.

PHP7 is a step further in the right direction, but we still have a way to go.