stowaway's comments

Sure, but if they'd made just a tiny effort to test their code before releasing it they'd have caught that bug instantly. We're not talking about time-consuming tests here - we talking about loading the page in the browser once. If the PHP code is showing, you're doing it wrong.

Maybe I went a little overboard with those words. However, it's not so much the typo; it's the fact that the typo caused passwords to be visible.

TL;DR: Amateurish PHP developers at Tumblr fuck up; HN developers who don't know PHP that well make wildly incorrect assumptions about PHP.

People, I know it's en vogue to bash PHP (just wait, in a few years it'll be Ruby and Python - remember, PHP was once hyped, too, and now it's going in the other direction) - but if you criticize PHP, could you at least try to sound like you've actually developed in PHP for more than a week?

Because most of the negative comments here about PHP have absolutely nothing to do with PHP as such - the Tumblr error in question has to do with incompetent programmers. If you read The Daily WTF you'll know that incompetent programmers can screw up no matter what language they're using.