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PHP is responsible for the commoditisation of developers. PHP salaries and contract rates are 20% less than for Ruby, Python and Node.js here in the UK. The dem
by cutler 7y ago
PHP is responsible for the commoditisation of developers. PHP salaries and contract rates are 20% less than for Ruby, Python and Node.js here in the UK. The demands of the job are just the same, ie. Laravel = Rails = Django, but companies assume they can get good developers 20% cheaper just because they use PHP. That's gotta be the main reason to stop using and promoting PHP.
- joaobeno 7y agoBlaming the language for the market is a mistake... If you stop promoting PHP, more devs will start on other language, and the market will pay lower, since there is more people to pick from with that particular skill...
- cutler 7y agoHey, I never looked at it this way - seriously. PHP is doing the rest of the programming world a service by absorbing all the low-end jobs.