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Discussion on: The Snobby Demonization of PHP

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Happy to share part of the 'shame': I built microservices in PHP and it was fine.

IMHO people should learn to give less fucks about the "right" way to build things and much more fucks about building the right thing.

Wikipedia for example is just a CRUD app built with PHP/MySQL. that's bad right?

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Adam Nathaniel Davis

(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.

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Edited

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.

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Nikola Stojaković

Well, it's much more than a simple CRUD app. Pretty much every web application out there is on the basic level CRUD, but there are many functionalities beside that.