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 Things I like:

    Lots of packages available via Composer, and lots of extensions available via PECL. You can pretty much do anything web related you want. Symfony components are amazing.

    Good suite of developer tools available. I do PHP in VScode, with Intelephense, PHPstan, Xdebug, and php-cs-fixer. Using these tools I've been able to cut down on time spent debugging by a lot. A lot of people here also love PHPstorm.

    Nice syntax. Match statements, autoloading, constructor property promotion, traits, interfaces, enums. Lately I've been experimenting with Fibers for concurrent scripting, they are great.

Overall I think learning PHP was a good choice for my career. I work in IT and it helped me really stand out and get hired at a great new job recently. I'm able to automate and script things really fast and get rid of a lot of tedious busywork. I hope to go into software development in the future. While I do think the language has a little baggage, overall I think it's heading in the right direction.