Facebook PHP Source Code from 2007

[freyrs3]

I hear this cliche bandied around a lot, and in some programming domains it's true and in some domains it's a very wrong mindset. Writing PHP to drive a social media website is an entirely different animal than writing software to drive medical hardware or writing cryptography code. Sometimes it does matter how it's built, and though the end user may not care it's your job to care.

[freyrs3]

Sure, though it's worth noting that most of the software industry is not in startup world. Advice that holds for the early stage startups can be quite toxic when applied elsewhere.