At this point we need herd immunity so young people gathering and getting infected is probably a net gain. More people will die due to economic damage than the virus if we maintained quarantine until vaccination.
It's now the most popular programming language by a decent margin, there are a lot of libraries available for it, and it lacks some of the performance limitations that affect other dynamic languages. Anyone that does frontend dev knows JavaScript, its about as close to a universal language as you can get.
Personally theres about a dozen other things I'd rather use but from a pragmatic perspective it makes sense. It's easy and it gets the job done relatively quickly.
I still use this directory structure and it doesn't really bother me honestly. Makes it very easy to work with multiple local repositories without having to worry about any linking or installing bullshit you have to do with other systems.
It makes a lot of sense IMO. They can immediately make more money in the short term, and after their competing product is ready they can negotiate more favorable terms with Hulu or not renew their agreement, which will direct a portion of people that discovered their content through Hulu to their own platform.
RPA seems to be the biggest area where this is currently popular. The "citizen developer" bullshit they're pushing IMO sounds good on paper but will lead to fragile bots that end up falling apart and not being properly maintained at scale. I can't imagine handing someone with no programming experience UiPath or whatever and having them basically deploying software directly to production. As far as I know there isn't a "code first" approach to this set of problems but there probably ought to be as someone who can't write code isn't likely to produce a high enough quality product even with a dumb downed drag and drop tool to make it worth it.
Also in terms of TDP and lack of a dedicated graphics card. And then with the Surface Book, not only is it more awkward as a laptop but because all but the GPU is in the screen the hardware has the same constraints as a tablet. Even with the excessive thinness of the 16" MacBook Pro, it can run circles around any of the Surface devices in terms of performance.
The funny thing is they advertised this as a feature when it was launched because it was supposed to be more aesthetically pleasing and not collect dust etc. I guess there's a reason Apple still uses rubber after all...
I think the idea is partly "I could use some help with this, but I'll get some food and drinks and we'll try to hang out and have a good time even though the work part sucks"
Not gonna lie my #1 complaint is that PHP jobs on average pay like shit in comparison to most other things. I don't want to work with it solely because it has no value on my resume.
That being said the biggest argument for PHP is productivity and I just prefer Ruby + Rails for that. Honestly though I will say I find PHP more pleasant to work with than Python these days.
