By valid reasons, I mean other than the developers, read the link in my post.
You may also appreciate this viewpoint: https://blog.codinghorror.com/php-sucks-but-it-doesnt-matter...
You may also appreciate this viewpoint: https://blog.codinghorror.com/php-sucks-but-it-doesnt-matter...
Many inexperienced developers use PHP and make a mess. But try to remember that there are also many brilliant engineers at Facebook and other companies using PHP and doing amazing things with it.