alt Hacker News> the effort that went into making it good should have gone into ditching PHP
What effort? PHP foundation has one employee!
> The bandaid mentality is what got us in this situation.
> We're a clown industry.
We are clown industry becauee nobody would sponsor solid research, infrastructure and fixing all those bugs! PHP is junk literslly written over nights by some volunteers!
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> PHP is junk literslly(sic) written over nights by some volunteers!
And yet everyone knows this, and millions of people still continue to use it and develop new software with it, to avoid learning from our mistakes. The software industry is just not interested in fixing these problems; I've heard people upset that AI is pointing out flaws, instead of being upset that flaws exist. Deeply unserious.
I suspect you're being intentionally obtuse here but the PHP Foundation isn't where PHP gets written. Zend are the closest we have to the PHP company I guess, and they have approximately 100 employees, then you've got however many people are employed either as contractors or by other companies with a primary focus of working on PHP itself.