Re:Modern PHP
by pc86 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:16PM
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The truth is whatever one's personal list of "must haves" and "should haves" are for a given language, there are probably at least 2 or 3 major languages that fit the bill in a given domain, and probably more if you're willing to use stuff like Haskell or Racket or Clojure (all fine languages but compare their popularity to JS or PHP to Python).
For every person who is vehemently in favor of one language over all others, it's usually pretty easy to point out another language that will get you 99% of what that other language will. So it's not a very tenable position to think one language is the be all end all.
But on the flip side, and in part because of the points above, "language cargo culting is stupid and should be avoided in almost every instance" can make a great deal of sense.
For every person who is vehemently in favor of one language over all others, it's usually pretty easy to point out another language that will get you 99% of what that other language will. So it's not a very tenable position to think one language is the be all end all.
But on the flip side, and in part because of the points above, "language cargo culting is stupid and should be avoided in almost every instance" can make a great deal of sense.