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Abdul wakeel

Hi All,

Hope you doing great, I am Software Engineer (Javascript) with 10+ years plus experience.

Started my career as PHP as you all I believe ;) and now playing around with all javascript frameworks.

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Cyril

Hi Abdul! I can relate to that, I followed the same path as you. PHP is great for starting development :)

Good luck and welcome on DEV :)

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Abdul wakeel

Yes, PHP is damn easy language to start your career. At that time I have two option either to start with PHP or ASP.

I started PHP because of XAMPP One tool for everything to start with no additional step, configuration. ASP was a bit harder to configure as starter.

But in 2009 I switch to ASP.NET when Scott Guthrie announce ASP.NET and web service support [WebMethod] :).

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Cyril

YES!! XAMPP!! Oh man the good old times!
I've moved on Linux since then (I remember spending all my days trying to install Debian, configuring the network, the sound, starting to feel discouraged and reinstalling Windows after a whole weekend with no computer!).

I went on the Java, then the Python way myself. I think the key element is to be happy (and efficient) with the programming language we use everyday :)

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Chris Achard

Awesome, welcome to DEV Abdul! Yes, a lot of webdevs got their start with PHP :) What JS frameworks are most interesting to you right now?

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Abdul wakeel

Started as Backbone JS developer when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Disappears and then switched to angular 2+ when google announce typescript support, and now playing with Angular 8+ and React & React Native.

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Abdul wakeel

Created a lovely writereader.com kids teaching tool in polymer Google web component library.