I’m just gonna go out on a limb and ruffle some feathers and say it’s node.js
Well, that’s a runtime. But yes, JavaScript.
People sure like to dunk on PHP. I’ll take whatever flak for this, but this is the kind of meme a .NET fanboy or Ruby on Rails bro would make when they haven’t touched any languages other then their prescious, and don’t know wtf they’re talking about.
PHP, after all these years, is STILL running 78% of all sites. That’s not because it’s garbage or the worst. It’s solid, reliable, mature and very well documented. And I say this as someone who has gladly moved to Python, but also work in in others.
Popularity doesn’t necessarily imply good. For example, we used to put lead in all the gasoline.
Most of the hate for php was born back in version 3 or 4, when it was a mess. Also a lot of people who where in college in those years learned php as a first language.
Combine a language that does not enforce good coding practices and a lot of people making their first website, and you get some pretty horrible codebases.
As part of my job is to maintain legacy php websites, I’ve seen lovercraftian nightmares. I love modern php, but I get where all this hate is coming from.
PHP was the first language I did any significant coding in. I will never use it again if I can at all avoid it.
PHP has more $s in it than spez’s eyes
WordPress has made me the Python developer I am today.
I came into this thread ready to defend the honor of Lisp.
Yuuuuup. PHP is the worst.
Pretty sure brain fuck should be on this list.
The point of “esoteric” programming languages like Brainfuck or Befunge is to be a source of puzzles for people who enjoy that kind of puzzle. They’re not “bad programming languages” any more than an escape room is a “bad apartment”.
Solid analogy
