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It's an argument for a particular tech stack that may have PHP in it. Excel is a bad example because it's closed-source and does not put a developer building a
by Zak 6y ago
It's an argument for a particular tech stack that may have PHP in it. Excel is a bad example because it's closed-source and does not put a developer building a solution on top of it on equal footing with its creators. Wordpress is probably the best example here; if it does 90% of what someone wants, it may be easier to add that 10% than to use a different solution.
I'd be surprised, however if there aren't solutions written in other languages that provide that same 90% in most cases. None of them are as famous, but that shouldn't hinder someone working as a consultant to help small businesses get online.
- robertlagrant 6y agoExcel enables even less technical people than Wordpress configurers. It provides 99.999999% of the solution, and the rest can be done with macros, pivot tables, etc. That's why it's a good example, I'd say.
- Zak 6y agoExtending Excel is a reason to use VBA, not the C/C++/C# most of Excel itself is written in. Extending Wordpress is a reason to use PHP. In both cases, the merits of the extension language are almost irrelevant; people use them because they're the extension language for a popular platform.