More than anything, I find the language $ugly. Is that fair? No. Am I being unreasonable. Yes. Do I love PHP? Gross. I just have to live with it and go past the ugly syntax. It’s like an unhappy marriage. It’s just fine.
I think PHP is a fine language if you are working on an existing application or are building on top of symfony but I’ll begin second guessing all your design decisions if you increase the default execution time of php from thirty seconds to over five minutes. I submit PHP does not belong anywhere outside the request response cycle. If you use it for other stuff, you are not wrong. I mean I’ve used puppeteer and node js to capture screenshots and I still think that ideally JavaScript should only exist in client-side web browser based development. I would never voluntarily do any of the react native or express/hapi server side development with JavaScript. I will do it if there is money involved, it just isn’t my preference.
It is ok to have a preference to do non web work with PHP but you owe it to yourself to at least try something else before saying you prefer it over everything else.
There is nothing wrong with $ though. That’s just insane. Also I’m very excited to see Drupal 9 being released with twig 2 support and more recent symfony support. I just think you should at least evaluate other options before saying “everything goes better with php sauce” just like the JavaScript crowd should stop and get some help before using JavaScript for native development and or server side development.
Maybe think of money everytime you see the $ symbol, to make it more palatable? :P
On a serious note, I find the JS ecosystem more annoying than PHP. Modern frameworks like Laravel (Laravel is nice to work with), PHP is more than enough for its intended use - web applications. PHP 7 has good performance improvements too.
