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But oftentimes our ire towards certain technologies seems like ire towards those that use them, even if that’s not the intent. It leaves people feeling “outside
by teucris 4y ago
But oftentimes our ire towards certain technologies seems like ire towards those that use them, even if that’s not the intent. It leaves people feeling “outside” as it implies they should have known not to use that technology.
My takeaway from the article was that when we see someone using a technology we despise, we take action to make their specific life better, rather than hate on the tech. In the case of PHP, that might be asking what issues they run into and suggesting solutions. That could lead to conversations like “you know, Python doesn’t have this issue, you might want to check out X framework to try it out”. But general flaming on PHP isn’t productive.
- larve 4y agoIt is also missing that there are many valuable things to be learnt from a technology that is that successful. This doesn’t happen by accident, and also shows that technical elegance is but a small part of being a successful engineer. But really, switching to Java for a bit, a tremendous amount of amazing engineering has gone into making Java the language it is. The Java flaming might have gone down in recent years, but the hot takes from the C/C++ unix crowd in the aughts was impressive.