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A good dev with only PHP skills becomes a better dev when he/she has other experiences. Ruby or Kotlin would not be off by too much. In my experience they produ
by cies 5y ago
A good dev with only PHP skills becomes a better dev when he/she has other experiences. Ruby or Kotlin would not be off by too much. In my experience they productive in days and are up to speed in a few weeks.
It's a small investment.
Having your code in PHP is a liability considering great free alternatives exist. If you can do it in Kotlin and have your code in a well types language, that is a bit win down the line.
- jacquesm 5y agoI'm not religious about languages, I probably used to be, but I grew up and grew out of it. Having your code in PHP is no more a liability than having it in any other framework/language combo if you don't know what you are doing, and people that don't know what they are doing abound in any eco system. PHP is just a tool, Ruby is just a tool. If you haven't spent an equal time in both you are probably not in a very good position to judge either. I've done a lot of PHP work, I've done a lot of Ruby programming and I dislike either with roughly equal passion to the point that if I never have to code up another website back end my life will be measurably better. The same goes for Python, Java, .Net, Go and whatever else we use to cobble together websites. All of these are broken and leaky at multiple levels and the 'perfect' solution to build websites doesn't exist, in fact I don't think there is even a half decent one. This is a direct consequence of trying to shoehorn application development into a platform that was never meant to be used that way, but that's another discussion entirely. So you pick whatever is least offensive to you and your team, and probably you'll pick that which you are most familiar with or that seems to come closest to a fit for the kind of problem you are trying to solve.