some years ago, i worked on migrating a PHP 5.6 code base to 7. it was the combination of of "odd" programmer decisions and weird language features that made me really un-love the language.

also, sadly, phpsadness.com is no longer active, but some of the of the gripes with the language eventually were fixed. archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20261004002230/http://phpsadness...

once i left my old workplace i haven't felt the need to work with PHP again.