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Eric • Edited

I disagree with your unfounded statement completely. If anything is "dodgy" it's the result of the developer and in that case, I've seen "dodgy" in every single programming language. I would pick PHP as my first programming language for building just about any new web site or application.

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Ben Sinclair

Yes, the result of the developers who developed PHP.

 
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Eric

You sound jaded and biased like a PHP developer took your job lol 😂

 
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Ben Sinclair

I've been a PHP developer professionally for the last decade or so.

 
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Chris Hansen

your point being?

 
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Ben Sinclair

My point being a direct and clear response to "you sound like [...] a PHP developer took your job".

A PHP developer didn't take my job, I am a PHP developer.

 
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Clement Sam • Edited

I guess you are trying to say that you are a WordPress or drupal developer...
Developing sites with CMSs built in PHP doesn't make you a PHP Developer.
I don't side with the article either but i think you are overreacting.

 
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Ben Sinclair

I guess you are trying to say that you are a WordPress or drupal developer...

No, but I do do quite a lot with them depending on the project.

Developing sites with CMSs built in PHP doesn't make you a PHP Developer.

I don't know how to appropriately respond to that?

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Canu667 • Edited

Yes, I mean since 7.0 things have improved a lot. Recently, I have been switching my job, to a one where I will build API's in Python. I did not predict how much I will miss access modifiers, interfaces or type hints from PHP.

 
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Eric

Yea, if I had a second pick it just might be Python though.