PHP — the Most Disliked Programming Language that Still Works!

PHP is often — no, almost always — considered the lousiest language by the computer science (CS) pundits. I agree with them on many counts. If you are a CS purist or pundit, you probably have a very low tolerance for PHP as a programming langauge. If you are new to programming — say you learned programming in the last five years, you probably didn’t get to learn PHP! If you did, ask your school for a refund! But, all kidding aside, I don’t blame anyone, including myself, for hating it. If you are developing machine learning (ML) algorithms, you probably love Python and another cool new generation language of the month. If you are developing cool smartphone apps and games, you probably love DART, Swift, Java, etc., depending on the platform from hell — Android — or the elitist iOS. If you are developing component-based web applications, you probably love node.js. Good for you! You also probably love Firebase, MONGO, or other NO SQL data stores.

It won’t probably be farfetched to think that you also use Kubernetes with Docker containers to manage your infrastructure orchestration needs. Congrats, you are the Silicon Valley programmer on the cutting edge, and you are working for a lottery ticket — winning the startup game! I get it; startup code — needs to be cutting edge. But most of the Web is boring — database, forms, API calls to…