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I'm actually a tad worried about what will happen to all the people who coded primarily PHP for their whole life when that roof finally collapses. Seems like it
by dscrd 13y ago
I'm actually a tad worried about what will happen to all the people who coded primarily PHP for their whole life when that roof finally collapses. Seems like it might look a bit like what happened with Symbian / Nokia -- they also had a massive cognitive dissonance over the quality of the developer environment, and when the system finally broke, it broke quickly and in a nasty way.
Then again, it's not impossible to learn a new environment or career path... and I'm quite against the thought that any language could permanently ruin a coder.
Additionally, something being popular implying it's good is a blatant fallacy.
- jtreminio 13y agoI'm curious how you came to the conclusion that something that occupies, by conservative counts, over 75% of the web as being "a blatant fallacy". Symbian / Nokia went the way of the dodo because the end user fell in love with the ease of use of the iPhone. In our case, the end users are people who use the internet, not the ones writing code. Your argument is about as ridiculous as I can imagine, with no real data to back it up other than your frothing hatred of a language.
- dscrd 13y agoCalling each and every criticism of the language you like as "frothing hatred" (as I've seen PHP folks do quite a lot lately) reeks of cognitive dissonance. Perhaps you should get over it. Also, the end users of a programming language are the programmers, not the users of the application. 99% of users could not care less what's under the hood just as long as it works.