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Money has nothing to do with a specific language. It comes down to how good you are as a developer. There are plenty of high paying jobs where PHP is used as a
by codegeek 8y ago
Money has nothing to do with a specific language. It comes down to how good you are as a developer. There are plenty of high paying jobs where PHP is used as a backend language. I don't understand this argument about how PHP doesn't have money. It is true that PHP has a lot of low quality programmers due to barrier to entry and WordPress tweaks but that is not it.
- scarface74 8y agoIt doesn’t matter how good of an AppleSoft Basic programmer you are, if no one wants a Basic programmer, you aren’t going to make any money. On the other hand, if the market is saturated with developers of a language, you still can’t command a high salary. It also doesn’t matter if you’re a “10x developer” if all the company wants is another software as a service CRUD app. Companies who want good developers who are interested in their career and technology aren’t doing PHP. From a personal anecdote, I worked for a company that had one legacy product that was written in PHP and one new product that was written in C#. The company couldn’t get any traction on their new project but was getting business modifying their legacy PHP product. Once we as developers saw that the roadmap for the next year was doing PHP, all 14 developers left within the next three months. None of us wanted to waste a year of our life and put on our resume that we wrote a “PHP website”.