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You don't need to apologize for what you get paid to do. Barely anyone gets to work with the software they would use in their free time. That managers let you u
by zelly 7y ago
You don't need to apologize for what you get paid to do. Barely anyone gets to work with the software they would use in their free time. That managers let you use some language does justify learning it, but it doesn't make that language better on technical (or aesthetic) merits.
PHP is bad. If you're getting paid for it, it's still bad. So what? People also get paid to scrub toilets.
Personally, I would rather write Java than Clojure. But I wouldn't quit if I suddenly had to use Clojure.
- iLemming 7y agoI haven't written much Java professionally (I know the language, I've used it), but I have written tons of Javascript code. I have to say - Clojurescript just makes much more sense. Java and Javascript are good as low-level languages for their respective platforms. But if you want to build something practical, Clojure really is much better. And by the way, demonstrated Clojure code is very unusual. Nobody in practice writes anything even close to that. Java interop is baked into the language, but in practice it doesn't look as scary as in the blogpost.
- ok_coo 7y agoTIL I scrub toilets. :/
- logfromblammo 7y agoIf your grandmothers had taught you the elder language of the Sun, you would see the words, rituals, and invocations of javac as mere shadows of the sigils of the true magic.
- arpa 7y agoPHP is not bad. No language is, even visual basic for applications isn't.