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It doesn't matter what happens, anytime something good PHP is mentioned the thread always turns into a fight. Why can't we just stop gate keeping programming la

It doesn't matter what happens, anytime something good PHP is mentioned the thread always turns into a fight. Why can't we just stop gate keeping programming languages and let people enjoy them. PHP gets tore apart all year long, and 1 nice article comes out and everyone jumps on it like it's preaching Delphi or VBA. PHP has continued to done wonders for me, I continue to write huge apps in it, I continue to love it. I've used every other language you wrote, and continue to this day to write in PHP. Not because I'm not able to grasp how good another language is. But because it works. If I need something I go to packagist and search, it's always there. If I need to deploy something, there is tons of ways, and even basic ones. I don't need no fancy deployment setup, but I can have a fancy deployment setup if I want. But people are more then welcome to hate it, and every time a positive post comes out about PHP I will continue to post my statement and then carry on building stuff. As there is ALWAYS a negative comment.

zeptonix 4y ago
Everyone's at a different step in their journey. But I do agree if you're building stuff then exactly, who cares? End of the day it's definitely about what's built, not how.
- dubcanada 4y ago
  HN does a lot of stuff well, but there is a ton of gate keeping here and PHP is one part of it. It does not deserve the hate it gets, it's popular to hate PHP here. It's actually less popular to like PHP. So articles like the above always get torn up. It's rather sad to see, we should be encouraging people to build however they want. Point students in the direction of best practices and discuss ways to improve. Rather than talk about how much we hate the fact that PHP continues to be in the top 10 and pretty much the entire web is built with it. But people do love to hate.
- GeneralTspoon 4y ago
  > Everyone's at a different step in their journey. Text book example of being condescending.

zeptonix 4y ago

Everyone's at a different step in their journey. But I do agree if you're building stuff then exactly, who cares? End of the day it's definitely about what's built, not how.

dubcanada 4y ago
HN does a lot of stuff well, but there is a ton of gate keeping here and PHP is one part of it. It does not deserve the hate it gets, it's popular to hate PHP here. It's actually less popular to like PHP. So articles like the above always get torn up. It's rather sad to see, we should be encouraging people to build however they want. Point students in the direction of best practices and discuss ways to improve. Rather than talk about how much we hate the fact that PHP continues to be in the top 10 and pretty much the entire web is built with it. But people do love to hate.
GeneralTspoon 4y ago
> Everyone's at a different step in their journey. Text book example of being condescending.