PHP was the right tool at the time especially when everything on the web was somewhat Wordpress first. PHP felt like a blast with WAMP/LAMP.
Since then I have moved on and honestly it never occurred to me, that PHP still could be an option in my tech stacks, neither one of my devs recommended it.
No one hates or disliked PHP, there are simply other options.
Looking back, recommending PHP today feels like "You can do this with jQuery, too" in the Frontend domain. Yes, you can, but maybe you shouldn't or only if you have the right people. And PHP is a rare skill now.
PHP was the right tool at the time especially when everything on the web was somewhat Wordpress first. PHP felt like a blast with WAMP/LAMP.
Since then I have moved on and honestly it never occurred to me, that PHP still could be an option in my tech stacks, neither one of my devs recommended it.
No one hates or disliked PHP, there are simply other options.
Looking back, recommending PHP today feels like "You can do this with jQuery, too" in the Frontend domain. Yes, you can, but maybe you shouldn't or only if you have the right people. And PHP is a rare skill now.