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> Hey, apparently there has been tons of quality software written in PHP and JavaScript as well. "Quality software" is a nebulous term. Make it "valuable soft
by Turing_Machine 6y ago
> Hey, apparently there has been tons of quality software written in PHP and JavaScript as well.
"Quality software" is a nebulous term.
Make it "valuable software", or "software that people will actually pay you money to write".
Apple (market cap: about $2 trillion) is Objective-C (slowly transitioning to Swift). Facebook (market cap: about $800 billion) was all PHP for a long time.
The "network effects" you mention do not exist with server-based software. You can run any language on the server you want, as long as it spits out well-formed HTML to the client.
In fact, these languages are popular because they are terse and powerful. And yes, like all powerful tools, they can kill or maim you in a hurry if you don't use care.