It was written in a basement by a guy to manage his blog and has since been extended with no coherent plan and is infuriatingly inconsistent. Also, it is ubiquitous and unescapable if you want to work on web facing applications.
I personally prefer python, perl, tcl, ruby, java, go, or anything that makes string management not a complete PITA.
Also, to relate to this thread and not my personal beef with PHP, I didn’t think our D was as bad as our record would indicate last year. They got nearly zero support from the offense. Also, as I understand it, we would have run a 4-2-5 last year if we had the depth to support it.
