pratyksp

Very low barrier to entry is also one of the reason why PHP ecosystem sucks. More than 95% of PHP programmers never grow up from beginner(at least what I've seen) even after more than few years of use. And those who grow up starts to use other language.

The PHP crowd is mostly filled with "Internet Programmers" [A person who copies code from the internet and pastes in one's codebase, without even reading it, and expects it to work.] And this also applies to all the javascript programmers who can download a jquery plugin and successfully use it in a website.

They even don't know that you can install PHP, apache and mysql separately and use it. For them XAMPP is all there it is, armed with dreamweaver and a ftp client. Most of them will be lost without cpanel.

I've tried teaching a few but all I get is :"go away don't try to be smart in front of me, I know what I'm doing."

Most of you here are smart people. But out there this is what you get from most of the PHP programmers.