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So dramatic. No one cares what you use, and I suspect you could just not read articles about PHP and voila your problems would go away. Choose your own destiny!
by ehnto 4y ago
So dramatic. No one cares what you use, and I suspect you could just not read articles about PHP and voila your problems would go away. Choose your own destiny!
You have to ask yourself why such a large proportion of work gets done in two objectively bad languages, PHP and Javascript. They dominate the space. I think it tells us that it's not actually that important to have a 100% perfect language, when it comes to building stuff.
- awesomeMilou 4y agotbf, TypeScript has taken over a huge part of the JS ecosystem, and while doing so has fixed lots of common "meme" gripes with the language. It has also introduced new issues, but alas, the web is typesafe. Learning PHP though is exactly as the article describes. I had to do it in college and even using a modern version of PHP, the language felt as if it had been written by 3 first semester students under pressure to meet a deadline. > You have to ask yourself why such a large proportion of work gets done in two objectively bad languages I did ask myself that, and I came to the same conclusion as the author of "Fractals of bad design": The majority of work gets done by amateurs and amateurs, per definition, don't know any better.