Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript
by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @08:41AM
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DISCLAIMER: I am not actually a "backend" developer (although I have written some pretty big backends).
I am not a JS fan. This is not because I have anything against the language; it's just that I have no real need for it, and have treated it as a "necessary evil," in my frontend work, so I don't believe that I have much of a platform to lob spitballs at it.
PHP, on the other hand, is a language that I have used for over 20 years. I think it was 3 or 4, when I started. If I do backend work, these days, I'll be doing so, in PHP.
I always like looking at the "fishtank graph"[0]. That sort of puts things in perspective.
I am not a JS fan. This is not because I have anything against the language; it's just that I have no real need for it, and have treated it as a "necessary evil," in my frontend work, so I don't believe that I have much of a platform to lob spitballs at it.
PHP, on the other hand, is a language that I have used for over 20 years. I think it was 3 or 4, when I started. If I do backend work, these days, I'll be doing so, in PHP.
I always like looking at the "fishtank graph"[0]. That sort of puts things in perspective.
[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...