More than half of the top level comments are from people who use PHP. You can tell by how they rush into PHP's defense and try to argue against the article.
The original post just can't be sensibly called "anti-PHP snobbery". It just points out PHP's shortcomings. But when all these PHP-users can't really attack the truth, they attack how it's presented instead (and of course whip up some strawmen and generally just try to skirt around the issues).
The human ego is a sad thing.
(Disagree? How about commenting instead of downvoting with self-righteous indignation?)
PHP devs certainly know its shortcomings like JS guys know that languages too. It's not the fact that he points out the shortcomings, that's fine. What makes it snobbery is how the author points out flaws and is so passionately anti-PHP with the subtext being "what I use is superior". He points out flaws in his preferences but in a way that makes it seem like flaws in Python are acceptable but flaws in PHP are never acceptable.
A lot of people who "point out PHP's shortcomings" are really just on a mission to make themselves and their preferences superior. It's a big pissing contest and these arguments come and go like how JavaScript was once despised and now loved.
It's easier for PHP developers to write it off as "a pissing contest" than to face the cold hard truth: PHP is, objectively, awful. There is literally no reason to choose it over today's alternatives other than market inertia, which is exactly what articles like this one are trying to stop.
The original post just can't be sensibly called "anti-PHP snobbery". It just points out PHP's shortcomings. But when all these PHP-users can't really attack the truth, they attack how it's presented instead (and of course whip up some strawmen and generally just try to skirt around the issues).
The human ego is a sad thing.
(Disagree? How about commenting instead of downvoting with self-righteous indignation?)