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Discussion on: Sloan's Inbox: Why Do Developers Love to Hate on XYZ?

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

They probably feel frustrated, especially when forced by existing code or prior decisions by their customers or employers to use a technology that they never liked in the first place. Or they feel disappointed by a tech stack that used to fascinate them when it was all new. Java and PHP both date back to the 1990s, and so does JavaScript, which also gets a lot of criticism and a bad reputation outside of the dev.to community.