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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by tabbott on Friday July 27, 2018 @02:33AM (#17623913)
It's also about the language. See, for example,

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-PHP-hated-by-so-many-developers

Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by _bear on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:59AM (#17645411)
That is from 2014. There have been many changes in the programming language since.

Most people nowadays are using frameworks and abstraction layers which make most of these points moot.