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I'd love to use Python or Go or whatever. But everyone wants to pay me to code PHP on some mediocre stack. So be it ... At least I home I am free to use whatev

I'd love to use Python or Go or whatever. But everyone wants to pay me to code PHP on some mediocre stack. So be it ... At least I home I am free to use whatever I want. So I use Symphony2 ;) ... which adds verbosity and complexity to a language that still can't decide if 0 is something empty or just the number 0.

nkozyra 14y ago
But this is a different issue altogether. If someone asks for product X without a language specification, you're probably free to create it in any language you're comfortable (although admittedly it would be stupid for a client to allow this). PHP is not faster to write, debug and deploy than most other languages. It is faster to write, debug and deploy if you know PHP well and language X not as well.
- conradfr 14y ago
  I guess it goes hand in hand. PHP is good enough for most of the jobs, cheaper/easier to host, and you get cheaper and easier-to-find developers
borplk 14y ago
"a language that still can't decide if 0 is something empty or just the number 0" Beautiful.