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About a year ago I was ready to jump ship on PHP. Then someone introduced me to Composer, Symfony 2 and Doctrine 2. I fell in love with PHP again, not because o
by pan69 12y ago
About a year ago I was ready to jump ship on PHP. Then someone introduced me to Composer, Symfony 2 and Doctrine 2. I fell in love with PHP again, not because of the language but because of the tools. Its now clear to me that the language doesn't really matter that much, it's the tooling around the language that makes the difference.
- alttab 12y agoAgreed. One thing to consider is how the features and performance of a language shape the tools. The tools can be great, but to some degree you're riding a long distance skateboard with a generator on the back... Edit: This comment comes off as me making fun of PHP, when I simply meant to say that tools can make something effective but what underlies an effective work environment can still be crap. I don't think PHP is "crap," but at a certain level of complexity its easier to get the "average developer" to be effective using another set of tools.