PHP only gets a bad name because there is so much crap code out there. It's also not cool anymore.<p>I remember when RoR was all the rage here on HN. Nobody wanted to admit the glaring DB and security issues and anyone against RoR during that time was promptly down voted and called an idiot.<p>It's funny. All the RoR people I know jumped ship years ago and moved onto the next 'cool' language. IE: Javascript Frameworks.<p>Many startups are just as much about using the hip new language as they are changing the world.<p>The real software engineers use what they know works, not what's cool.