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You are far too serious a person. I actually stand by the sentiment. Wordpress is a virus, and like jQuery, it has negatively impacted the development scene o
by jmcdiesel 10y ago
You are far too serious a person.
I actually stand by the sentiment. Wordpress is a virus, and like jQuery, it has negatively impacted the development scene of the language is lives in. PHP, on the cusp of becoming a more respectable language (I freely admit my love for PHP, to this day, even though I primarily work in Java and Python now), was taken over by WP "developers" who flooded the market and sell themselves as engineers when all they can do is copypasta a few wordpress idioms.
I don't hate on wordpress itself, its a fine, though early on troubled codebase. The predatory community it has created, the security issues it continues to create, and the low-barrier to entry that floods the market with a ton of really bad code isn't something I would want to bring into another language's world.
And here's where the light-hearted part comes in... I know that projects like these would NEVER actually cause that kind of effect on their language because nobody would take it seriously... but the analogy of what COULD happen (you know, fictional, like ridiculous unrealism of the base concept of the movie) was apt.
I fail to understand why in a world so caught up in negativity and rigidness, people chose to not allow themselves to enjoy or notice light-hearted humor, and actively defend their stance against it, as if somehow eliminating light hearted jest is a benefit to a world already buried in such negativity...
- jacquesm 10y agoThe person posting this went out of his way to try to do some good. Instead of taking them down with cheap shots: What have you done to give the PHP world (better?) options? If everybody that railed on others creations would instead spend the time to provide better alternatives then we wouldn't be having this discussion. But cheap shots are cheap and work is hard.