(As you can probably already tell by my post) I completely agree with you. Of course, my post wasn't meant to say that PHP is crap. Rather, too many in the dev community (in the US, at least), seem to have adopted the viewpoint that PHP is a "script kiddie" language. So much so that it can actually be a liability to even mention PHP if you're in a job interview for any position that doesn't specifically call for PHP.
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
i agree with you and I would
1) make a list of the most famous devs that built great things with PHP and ask the snobs whether they really think that they are smarter than those guys
2) treat this snobism as a red flag that I don't want to work here
Seriously it's not even about PHP
$LANGUAGE shaming *people" is stupid no matter what $LANGUAGE is currently hyped or not. Good people should try hard to not be that guy.
(As you can probably already tell by my post) I completely agree with you. Of course, my post wasn't meant to say that PHP is crap. Rather, too many in the dev community (in the US, at least), seem to have adopted the viewpoint that PHP is a "script kiddie" language. So much so that it can actually be a liability to even mention PHP if you're in a job interview for any position that doesn't specifically call for PHP.
i agree with you and I would
1) make a list of the most famous devs that built great things with PHP and ask the snobs whether they really think that they are smarter than those guys
2) treat this snobism as a red flag that I don't want to work here
Seriously it's not even about PHP
$LANGUAGE shaming *people" is stupid no matter what $LANGUAGE is currently hyped or not. Good people should try hard to not be that guy.
What are the worst programming languages that nobody should learn?
Jean-Michel Fayard π«π·π©πͺπ¬π§πͺπΈπ¨π΄ γ» Jan 8 γ» 2 min read