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Unless you're Automattic (Wordpress.com). Or Acquia (Drupal). "Acquia… today announced that its co-founder Dries Buytaert was named CTO of the Year at the 2014

by troymc 12y ago

Unless you're Automattic (Wordpress.com). Or Acquia (Drupal). "Acquia… today announced that its co-founder Dries Buytaert was named CTO of the Year at the 2014 MassTLC Leadership Awards, hosted by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Acquia led all companies with four finalists at this year’s awards…" [1] Those examples show that PHP can be used, in a core way, by great technology companies. [1] http://www.acquia.com/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/dries-buytaert-named-cto-year-massachusetts-technology-leadership http://www.acquia.com/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/dries...

jayzalowitz 12y ago
Mailchimp? Facebook? Saying php cant be used at a good startup is a bit like saying you can't start a good company over 35.
- britknight 12y ago
  Correlation in not a death sentence. No one is saying it can't be used, merely making a observation based on the gathered statistics.
calibraxis 12y ago
Personally, I think you can be suboptimal in all sorts of ways which cost you, yet nevertheless succeed. Though one problem: people use a tiny percentage of successful companies to justify their mistakes. One ad company manager told me, "Well Doubleclick's UI was slow!" But the obvious retort, if I thought he'd listen: "You're not at Doubleclick, are you? No, your company's failing miserably. Same with PHP: "Don't imagine you're Facebook. You'd be lucky to be Myspace." If your tradeoff analysis suggests PHP is the right choice, so be it. But comparing oneself to Facebook suggests commitment to irrationality and monkey-see-monkey-do. It'd be more reasonable to evaluate PHP in terms of tool quality, but that's too much to ask for in the tech industry.
lpolovets 12y ago
(I'm the author of the CodingVC post.) I fully agree with you. Facebook is also a heavy PHP user, and that's the biggest startup IPO of the last decade. PHP can definitely be used at a great company -- the data simply showed that the better the company, the less likely it was to be using PHP.

by troymc 12y ago

jayzalowitz 12y ago

Mailchimp? Facebook? Saying php cant be used at a good startup is a bit like saying you can't start a good company over 35.

britknight 12y ago
Correlation in not a death sentence. No one is saying it can't be used, merely making a observation based on the gathered statistics.

calibraxis 12y ago

Personally, I think you can be suboptimal in all sorts of ways which cost you, yet nevertheless succeed. Though one problem: people use a tiny percentage of successful companies to justify their mistakes. One ad company manager told me, "Well Doubleclick's UI was slow!" But the obvious retort, if I thought he'd listen: "You're not at Doubleclick, are you? No, your company's failing miserably. Same with PHP: "Don't imagine you're Facebook. You'd be lucky to be Myspace." If your tradeoff analysis suggests PHP is the right choice, so be it. But comparing oneself to Facebook suggests commitment to irrationality and monkey-see-monkey-do. It'd be more reasonable to evaluate PHP in terms of tool quality, but that's too much to ask for in the tech industry.

lpolovets 12y ago

(I'm the author of the CodingVC post.) I fully agree with you. Facebook is also a heavy PHP user, and that's the biggest startup IPO of the last decade. PHP can definitely be used at a great company -- the data simply showed that the better the company, the less likely it was to be using PHP.