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exstudent on Oct 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A possible future for PHP

My problem with PHP is that it's a signal of developer laziness. There are a lot of very interesting things going on with languages nowadays. If you develop in PHP because "it pays the bills" you ARE NOT the type of developer I ever want to work with.

Honestly, I'm starting to see the same thing with Python/Ruby/JS devs. Stick with one language that you're comfortable with and never push yourself.

PHP is an order of magnitude worse in that respect than the other scripting languages.

ceejayoz on Oct 2, 2014 [–]

You sound like https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker.

exstudent on Oct 2, 2014 | [–]

I have been retweeted by it :P

I stand by my opinion though despite the (anticipated) downvoting. Programming in PHP is anti-intellectual.

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