https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
(This article has been translated into Spanish (PDF, with some additions) by Jorge Amado Soria Ramirez — t
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Exactly.
Also, besides the fact that over this time PHP transformed into a whole different language, most of the concepts the author is dissatisfied with, are just nuances.
There are a few valid points as well.
Overall, if I were to use a scripting language for web development, I would 100% pick PHP, as that's the best suited language for the job. Nowadays, however, I go with Rust because I wanna squeeze out as much performance as I reasonably can.
For single use scripts and smaller tools on my desktop, I used Python in the past, and then I learned Ruby. I'm sticking with Ruby for these use cases.