Comment PHP 8 != PHP 5.3 (Score 1) 94
For color, the best critique of PHP is entitled, "PHP a fractal of bad design."
Eevee's article from April 2012 was about PHP 5.3, not PHP 8. PHP versions 5.4, 5.6, and 7 came out soon afterward, fixing a lot of the flaws she pointed out. A retrospective eight years later showed how much the language had progressed on the road to 8.