I liked Symfony but becoming a “PHP guy” looks like a terrible career move still. Also not a huge fan of the one data structure being both a dictionary and an array.
Amen. And it does neither very well. Not to mention that you can get surprising results like if you insert into an "array" out of order then iterate over it, you get the results in insertion order and not index order.
> if you've used one MVC framework you've kind of used them all
Same goes for C-like languages like PHP or C#. Most of the features and syntax are the same across all in the family, so who really cares if it's Ruby, PHP or C#, they are more alike than they are different.
Those are fine. PHP has just been tainted by its past and low barrier to entry. I hate to say it but my company now just filters out candidates who have PHP as the majority of their experience because the signal to noise ratio is so bad.
