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> It's incredibly hard to find good PHP developers. But... is it much easier to find good devs in any other tech stack? I don't see it, personally. My ruby f
by lowercased 5y ago
> It's incredibly hard to find good PHP developers.
But... is it much easier to find good devs in any other tech stack? I don't see it, personally. My ruby friends complain it's hard to find ruby devs at all, and harder to find good ones. I do see a lot of JS/node folks that get accepted as 'good', but when the rubber hits the road, the code is often still... meh - cut corners, SO copy/paste, etc.
I see bad node and bad js and bad python... but somehow the languages and stacks get a pass and "it was just a bad developer". But if you see bad PHP, people think "the whole language sucks". Completely inconsistent.
- Darmody 5y agoYou don't see as much bad python code as you see bad PHP code. PHP has no entry barrier. You can just start typing and things start working. Compare that with deploying a hello word website in python, java or elixir.
- lowercased 5y agoI don't see much python code period, in my day to day work, but what I do see often... doesn't seem demonstrably 'better' by any metrics than run of the mill code from any other stack. But it sometimes comes with some sense of smugness about being 'pythonic'. Standard Java I don't get that sense, but do from some Kotlin advocates I know (usually the ones that are new to programming in general who feel they've found some new magic bullet that will overturn all the bad PHP out there).