True, I have seen one startup fail early because he couldn't find any (cheap) Django devs. He might have stayed around another year with the funding he had if he had gone PHP.
Lesson Learned: If you can't do it yourself, start with PHP (or something else with incredibly cheap devs, I suppose) until you get VC funding, then rewrite it using something other than PHP.
Django devs are cheap, too.
Re:Taking PHP Seriously
by foolinaround on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:01PM
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> PHP devs aren't expensive. Even good ones.
Would'nt the good ones logically move to a different language ( JS/Ruby etc ) where they could bill more?
Money past a certain point is not an incentive. Retraining takes time. It's harder to land jobs for which one does not have relevant work experience. The PHP job market is larger than most other web programming segments, so work is easier to find. But sure, if you're hiring, I'd certainly prefer working with Ruby.
It's easier to reroll in another language and retrain or recruit? No. So you probably mean for a new project. So now you've more maintenance and learning curve unless you just happen to have enough skilled in $NEWTHING. Not really easier.
PHP is an inconsistent mess, everyone knows that, but it's cheap, widely understood, and it's perfectly possible to write decent maintainable code. There's ways to mitigate the chaos.