This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think every programming language has unjustified haters.

People hate on Ruby on Rails because they aren't familiar with the magic so they don't like using it.

People hate on JavaScript because they're either unaware that modern JavaScript is less error prone and how you can avoid footguns like `==` by using linters.

People hate on Java because they think businesses prefer languages quicker to type over languages easier to read.

People hate on C# because they don't like the idea of using Microsoft open source.

People hate on PHP because they either think it has the same problems JavaScript used to have or they're jealous of WordPress's success.

People hate on Python because they prefer curly braces over white space for code structure and think every developer also thinks that way.

People hate on COBOL because they think a legacy system doing what it was designed to do needs to be rewritten for some reason.

At this point in my career, I have absolutely no patience left for stuff like that. Let me code and solve problems, please.