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>I'd have put PHP and C++ at the very top of the list, then reverse the whole list. I know what you probably meant, but if you put them at the very top of the list and then reverse it whole, they'll end up at the bottom again. Just saying.
No, that's exactly what I meant! I find PHP to be a bag of confused inconsistencies thrown together. While I have no disrespect to the people who put up with this on a daily basis, I'd never choose it for a new project. Similarly, C++ has never really appealed to me - its idea of OO seems misconceived, and it doesn't seem necessary - my current favourite for this niche is Nim
Thankfully, there's nothing mandatory about OO in C++. I mostly just use C++ as an incremental improvement over C - not "C with classes", but C with constexpr, a bit more type safety and a few other niceties. Nim is better in some ways, but often not really an option for me.