Me: just casually reading HN.

Also me, to myself: hold our beer we’re going to nerd snipe ourselves and write this as a regex that can’t be flagged as ReDoS.

  /G(N)(U) is \1ot \2nix/

Which means the 'G' could have been replaced by _anything_! Same for the first 'P' in PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP originated as Personal Home Page. The current official name is a backronym.

>PHP originated as Personal Home Page.

I guess Worlds Most Efficient Security Violation Generator was tool long (WMESVG)

A regressive opinion not representative of modern PHP.

Thanks for pointing that out. Several years ago, I had a small server running PHP - I had to patch it 3 times in 4 months. It spent more time with patches than I spent rewriting it from scratch.

I just checked the PHP CVEs, amd it seems it has gone quite a while without high scoring CVEs - so, good for them