> who as far as I can tell was not posting any false information about PHP

I asked what prompted the person to type that kind of reply. Had you read the entire topic, you'd see plenty of false info being posted, but my point remains: you used PHP, you moved on, what prompts you to be active in topic about PHP where all you contribute with is "I moved on."

> This is such a weird reaction to have to the idea that someone has learned, and/or would rather use, some other language. I hope you can see that.

And we're in territory of mental gymnastics now :)

You think the reaction is to learning another language? You're obviously a programmer. Can you tell me how many possible outcomes exist and how come you chose this one in particular?

Reaction was not to learning another language, it's ridiculous.

> I have never seen any programming language community that feels _threatened_

You never read linux mailing list and c vs c++? I can't take you seriously, you talk as if there exists de-facto "community". There isn't one, it's just a bunch of people who use various forums and there's no coherent community. You interacted with several people and you label that community and then you purposely shove words that haven't been written only to challenge them.

It's a straw man argument.

You persist in labeling PHP devs so narrow-minded that they chase away people who learn other languages. I don't know which (human) language I need to use, but it's apparent that this is becoming multiplayer monologue. I write one thing, you claim I wrote something else and then you generalize based on it.

Notice: I haven't tried to provide my "credentials" by listing what languages I know or what I do. I never even stated I'm a PHP dev.

You, on the other hand, labeled me and entire PHP community as weak-ego, tribalists who frown upon other languages and that the PHP community, which apparently you researched somehow, is different to all other communities - which you also apparently researched. In this whole wall of text you wrote, you have't asked a single question. You merely stated something and then you proceeded to take up the higher moral ground and then demean people. Do you think such discourse is productive?

> Fundamentally, this is a learned social behaviour, which means that whether or not individual PHP developers know other languages does not matter. A community that treats acquiring additional knowledge as a _threat_, seeing learning from the outside world as a _betrayal_, will not be able to learn _from_ other languages.

In this very topic, I wrote about features I'd like to see in PHP - one being generics. Something I learned in C# and something that changed my entire stance to JS because of having used in TypeScript.

That's just _one_ example of how you assume without zero facts to go by. I won't bother listing what we do for feature suggestions in PHP, which languages have great features and what we do to bring them in. You're just incapable of reading and you merely recognized me as a "bad guy" because I called someone out. I seriously doubt you'll read this, it would take more than 13 seconds of attention and that's something hard to acquire these days.

TL;DR: nice gaslighting and straw man, thanks for ad-hominem, I wish you well in the new year :)