Re:Show HN: Learn to Code for Free
by alexhakawy on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @01:42AM
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all most all of the web is written in PHP, a beginner can't understand how everything fits together by learning Ruby. With php you can literally insert it into HTML. For me is all about the big picture, Plus I think there are more jobs in PHP than Ruby
Re:Show HN: Learn to Code for Free
by igor_filippov on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @07:38AM
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Well, and then you get people who insert php into html in production environments. Believe me, I've seen it more than once. I don't see how PHP is easier than Ruby. It's not Haskel, after all.
Re:Show HN: Learn to Code for Free
by alexhakawy on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @06:28PM
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cause PHP isn't magic like Ruby on Rails.
There are plenty of Ruby jobs out there, and it's an elegant and well-designed language that's got a mature framework. Especially crucial for relative beginners: it doesn't have the flavor-of-the-week problem that JS does, nor is its most prominent example a legacy mess, as Wordpress is for PHP.