[omgitsabird]

> created by language amateurs > all of that is gone and they are still stuck with a subpar language

The argument is that the language is "awful" and "subpar" because it has "early decisions" like "multiple thousands of built-in" global functions introduced by "language amateurs"?

Sorry, but I remain unconvinced.

I agree that there are real reasons that PHP fails as a language in particular use cases, but it seems rare that those reasons get articulated in these threads.