I don't understand how you see so many people talking shit about php and when you click their profile they are php developers

Wouldn't php devs be the ones we expect to rant about it? It's like I'm allowed to rant about Ohio weather bc I'm from there.

As a plumber you see shit all day and still work with it

Except is one of the best and most widely used languages in the world. So please tell me again how it sucks, with actual facts :p

@ScribeOfGoD The $ before variables, dynamic typing.

I didn't code much in PHP so far but these few things make me hate the language.
The $ is simply a waste of time and when I need to check if a function returns a boolean or a string I feel the need to punch something.

The more you use it, probably you will know how to hate it.

@ScribeOfGoD
- the $ in front of every variable
- variables simply pop into existence
- inconsistent naming
- weak-typing
- implicit type conversions EVERYWHERE
- still slow af (yes, even with PHP 7.1)
- no support for concurrency
- weird and unpredictable pitfalls all over the language (I, for example, would never expect to concatenate strings with a dot. That's just poor and inconsistent language design)

Ohh, and even Rasmus Lerdorf said that he had no idea what he was doing while he created PHP, it was never his intention to create a new language and that he doesn't even like programming whatsoever