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Not really. If you don't like working with a particular tool, any work that you do with that tool will be fundamentally substandard. So if the same results coul
by jcapote 17y ago
Not really. If you don't like working with a particular tool, any work that you do with that tool will be fundamentally substandard. So if the same results could be achieved with a better tool, then your work should also be better.
- tptacek 17y agoFirst, the difference between professionals and amateurs is that professionals stand behind their work even when they don't enjoy doing it. But that's neither here nor there. If you can't stand behind doing work in a mainstream language, don't take those jobs, and accept that you're going to earn a fraction of what your peers do. However, when you deliver product to people in a language nobody else uses, and implicitly recommend they deploy code in that language, and you do it because you're bored with PHP, and you pick the language you move to deliberately to mask the costs of using a less popular language by compiling it down to PHP, you're coming pretty close to screwing over your clients. Happy to be wrong about this, though. I'll stop here.