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I have a full time job, young kids and I work on some small web projects in my spare time. I started on PHP as my first language many years ago and I am at the
by albahk 15y ago
I have a full time job, young kids and I work on some small web projects in my spare time. I started on PHP as my first language many years ago and I am at the point where I can get anything done I need to in PHP and I enjoy solving problems with code. I use a lightweight framework (Codeigniter) because it saves me from having to write my own.
For me, exploring different languages, frameworks, platforms etc is a luxury I don't have time for. PHP works for me and on the list of things that are adversely affecting my projects it is way down near the bottom after getting users, revenue, marketing, scaling, one-click deployments, testing, design, databases, backups, security, sleep, motivation, server costs, monitoring etc.
At the end of the day basically every language/framework/server is just spitting out HTML/CSS/JS text to a browser so as long as it does that OK then I am happy to focus on building the business.