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If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? (lemm.ee)

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Who downvoted this person's preference?

Like "you preferenced wrong"? "You have the wrong likes"? "You like something different from me?"

[-] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The did not follow the hivemind of "Rust good, JS slow, C complex, PHP bad" which clearly means they are in the wrong /s

[+] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

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[-] amju_wolf@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

You got it backwards there. PHP was pretty bad (mostly because it was easy to pick up so novice and shitty programmers used it a lot), but got insanely better, and it absolutely stood the test of time - most of modern web still uses it and it isn't going anywhere. There are also few languages that would have such a robust ecosystem where you could whip up a solid, complete app in a few hours. JS comes close but its ecosystem is a clusterfuck. Everything else has poor third party support - be it libraries, connectors to various services or just simply best practices (for web).

[-] Undertaker@feddit.de -1 points 1 year ago

I would argue but there is nothing to say about clearly wrong statements. PHP was 'good' (compared to nothing comparable) and is now no challenger any more. It stays as a result of dullness. "Everything else has poor third party support"? Well let me answer this as accurate as possible: lmao

[-] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

...so you have not, in fact, used PHP in the past decade or so. Thanks for letting us know.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

You're welcome to like what you like

The person upthread got downvoted for what they like. 🤷

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