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Re:Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from b... by wyclif on Saturday August 04, 2018 @07:10PM (#17688878)
With PHP, all you have is legacy

This is not true. I think you'll find a lot of new projects being written in PHP 7.2 and/or using some newer framework, like Laravel.

There is nothing wrong with getting PHP work. PHP is not going away anytime soon, and the language has improved a lot since 5.6.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from b... by frontout on Sunday August 05, 2018 @03:45PM (#17693110)
Your mileage may vary, but PHP is on its way out and no matter how it "improved", its reputation really hasn't. People starting new projects means nothing if there's no traction for jobs.
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Re:Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from b... by wyclif on Monday August 06, 2018 @07:27AM (#17696726)
It's absolutely not true that there's no traction with PHP, even if we grant that PHP is "on its way out"! That kind of comment shows how out of touch you are. As for PHP's "reputation", a lot of that is legacy from 4.x days. But when was that? Oh yeah, that was the early 2000's. I'll say it again: if you look at PHP today I think you're going to see that things have improved dramatically. Just ask Facebook...
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Re:Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from b... by rocketpastsix on Sunday August 05, 2018 @08:57PM (#17694463)
lol no its not.
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