Why the hatred for PHP?

I never understood this. I have never even seen it until I started using image boards, and people were claiming wakaba was superior then everything else because it was written in perl.

What is so bad about PHP? I've always viewed PHP as a simplistic language that is easy to learn. Apparently there is something extremely wrong with it though, that if you use you are considered an "amateur" programmer.

>>13
No, desktop PHP applications are fucking awful, even more so than web based. And does PHP still fuck up all the error message line numbers if you have a hashbang?

What the world needs is standalone JS that doesn't require a custom-built interpreter.

>>17
I concur.  I want to write programs in JavaScript!