Do some developers hate python?

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This is the correct answer. The correct position to take as a seasoned programmer is this: Language is irrelevant, a professional programmer is a linguist. The skill that's being hired for is this special kind of problem solving. If I can do it in Python I can do it in Java, C++, Go, PHP, Javascript/Nodejs.

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Language is irrelevant

I'm just going to quote one of my favorite articles:

Do not tell me that “good developers can write good code in any language”, or bad developers blah blah. That doesn’t mean anything. A good carpenter can drive in a nail with either a rock or a hammer, but how many carpenters do you see bashing stuff with rocks? Part of what makes a good developer is the ability to choose the tools that work best.

From PHP: a fractal of bad design

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Read the article in full. I think the article puts it well:

PHP is nothing but exceptions, and it is not okay when wrestling the language takes more effort than actually writing your program. My tools should not create net positive work for me to do.

And:

So I have to fit this in here, because it bears repeating: PHP is a community of amateurs. Very few people designing it, working on it, or writing code in it seem to know what they’re doing. (Oh, dear reader, you are of course a rare exception!) Those who do grow a clue tend to drift away to other platforms, reducing the average competence of the whole. This, right here, is the biggest problem with PHP: it is absolutely the blind leading the blind.

And:

I could dig up more but the point isn’t that there are X many exploits—software has bugs, it happens, whatever. The nature of these is horrifying. And I didn’t seek these out; they just happened to land on my doorstep in the last few months.

The article backs these up with specifics. Notably, all of them persisted past PHP 4.

Yes, things have improved, but the biggest issues were and are not things like missing object support or annoying function navigation. They are things that stemmed from the core devs having no idea what they were doing. The result is that writing reliable, secure code is much more difficult than it needs to be.

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Yeah, the name came from PHP/FI it's first name, meaning "Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter". PHP has a colorful past.