there's a lot of this going on right now against PHP..

I remember getting the same sort of thing when I started a new job many years ago, and it was like 'you're doing Visual Basic? haha'. Nevermind what other experience I was bringing to the table. Bad code can be written in any language.

I'm perfectly happy admitting I've written PHP. And C++, and C#, and hell even some poor js before jquery.

You know what... I've grown and am thankful for the experience in all of it.