I agree with this. Anacdotally I spent years fighting my way out of the perception of being a "PHP programmer". Despite having open source projects in a litany

I agree with this. Anacdotally I spent years fighting my way out of the perception of being a "PHP programmer". Despite having open source projects in a litany of languages, it was all interviewees wanted to talk about. I eventually lucked into working for a consulting firm who trusted me to work on goland and python and JS projects for two years, and that job on my CV means magically my twenty years of experience is now worth much (~$100k) more on the job market and nobody asks about my PHP work anymore.