Re:Moving from Go to PHP Again
by mnutt on Friday February 08, 2019 @07:20AM
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Even worse, Tumblr had an incident where they accidentally changed <?php to i?php (my guess would be editing directly on the server with vim?) and exposed not only their source code but also credentials.
It would have been possible for tumblr to avoid this with good development practices (don’t edit code live, don’t bake credentials into code, etc) but I imagine there was a culture of doing it at the time.
I don’t think it’s fair to tell developers “use our language, it’s super easy!” and then expect them to discard all of those bad habits as they start putting things in production.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2343351
It would have been possible for tumblr to avoid this with good development practices (don’t edit code live, don’t bake credentials into code, etc) but I imagine there was a culture of doing it at the time.
I don’t think it’s fair to tell developers “use our language, it’s super easy!” and then expect them to discard all of those bad habits as they start putting things in production.