Exactly. The part that bugs me the most about the post is when it says "that's what we PHP guys do well: fail fast, fail cheap". Basically what he is stating i

Exactly. The part that bugs me the most about the post is when it says "that's what we PHP guys do well: fail fast, fail cheap". Basically what he is stating is: 1) PHP developers are going to hit a wall earlier than other developers 2) PHP developers are cheap in general. How is that a positive statement, I don't know. There's this stupid belief that by paying less for someone who does "a quick job" you can test a feature and then "build from there". It's bullshit. From my own experience, I've regretted time and again hiring a cowboy (the fact that he was a PHP dev is not unrelated) developer just because we needed something "quick". What was supposed to be a 10-day deliverable turned into a 4-month mess of a codebase that I couldn't wait to rewrite. We ended up being hostage to our own code.