I think it’s the culture. The code quality of almost every PHP project I’ve seen is atrocious. I’m not saying every JS project is perfect (far from it), but amazingly well-written JS projects are ubiquitous.

So when I ask myself “how much do I trust complete strangers on the internet?” the answer is “not much, but even less than that if it’s written in PHP.”

> amazingly well-written JS projects are ubiquitous

I'd genuinely love some examples.

React: https://github.com/facebook/react

Vimium: https://github.com/philc/vimium

If you want more, here is probably a good place to start: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...