In the minds of many developers, PHP has remained in version 4. When the language was unstable, with disastrous performance and non-existent OOP. Developers hate PHP because they believe the language has been stagnating for 20 years. When you know PHP today you know that it's far from PHP4.

Is PHP still relevant in 2020?

“Now it's 2020 and PHP has stayed the same. It's still one of the easiest languages to learn. JavaScript could be easy to learn, depending on the framework you choose, but PHP is easy to learn from scratch with no prior knowledge required.”

Do programmers still use PHP?

PHP is known to be the most frequently used programming language. According to W3Techs, 78.8% of all websites are using PHP for their server-side. Interesting fact: PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page. Now PHP is widely known and thought of as Hypertext Preprocessor.