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You're comparing to only JavaScript, have you worked with another language like python, ruby, lisp, rust? Maybe then you'd see what I mean.
By verbose I mean that mostly PHP lacks syntactic sugar, mostly it lacks powerful features of other languages. You can mostly write very simple procedural code.
Well I compare to JavaScript because that's what most people bring up. On web development, I guess JavaScript is the biggest competitor.
I've worked with many languages. I even worked with assembly for a while in another life over 25 years ago, I worked with visual basic, .net, c, c++, Java, JavaScript and it's many frameworks, loads other more obscure languages too, and I've played with some python over the years. Still though, php has my favorite since a loooong time
Can you give an example of missing syntactic sugar or features that are missing?
Type hints and comprehensions as in Python, borrow checker, traits, code interface checking in Rust. Most functional features.
IDK; I just don't like anything about PHP and I have worked with it. It seems bad at every task.
Type hinting? There. Traits? There. Interfaces? There. I could go on but PHP has all these features that people keep saying are missing.
I'm not saying you don't have to like PHP, everyone likes there own labgua and that's fine.
However, people keep making shit up about phpt and then use that shit to smear it and it's annoying. PHP is great for web sites, small and complicated, it's great for command line scripting, it's great for a large list of tasks and it seems that what you need is there.
It doesn't really count if you need a huge framework for it. Frankly I never saw PHP used well, and I never saw it do anything better than other languages can do.
It doesn't need a huge framework for any of the things I mentioned.
I use my own (rather small still, really) framework to make things easier, like you'd do for any larger projects.
But I can (and have) on many occasions just slap something together as well