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PHP Is Legacy, in 2024

Developers sometimes still jump to the conclusion that PHP, as a programming language is "legacy". Why is this?

But there's no reasoning behind it anymore - the closest someone will probably give as an explanation is a massive rambling blog post written years ago about many, many things that you will never encounter or are only an annoyance to its author. This evolution has happened precisely because PHP is still being so widely used - without it’s widespread use we would never have seen things like the move to a full Object Oriented class system in 5.0, traits in 5.4, the introduction of generators in 5.6, a reworked engine in PHP7 that saw a performance boost of 100% in some cases, a JIT compiler for 8.0 and native enums in 8.1. With that philosophy in mind, it's worth noting that Laravel's approach to full-stack development (itself originally based on Rails) has spawned fully featured frameworks outside of the PHP space.

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