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I feel like many developers are using RoR and Python simply because it's 'cool'. The old, reliable languages are boring. I also don't like the fact that many

by rick888 16y ago

I feel like many developers are using RoR and Python simply because it's 'cool'. The old, reliable languages are boring. I also don't like the fact that many frameworks out there abstract layers away and make it so you don't really know what's going on underneath. This makes it easy to say you are a developer (because you can make something) when you are just mashing frameworks together. I've also been using PHP for the last 10 years and have never had problems scaling or writing good code.

xd 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. I choose PHP, all that time ago, because back then I was a C developer. I fell in love with the fact you could create your own C extensions and that the PHP syntax was similar to C syntax, so it was easy to pick up and make it do what I wanted it to do. I've only every toyed with frameworks, never used one as such, because I built my own library up over the years that is suited to my needs.