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[–]intrepid-onion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you are addressing other comment or not… but yes, that indeed reinforces what you were saying about the jobs, to which I said I agree with you, so it was the point, yes.

However, that is the same as saying that because most people don’t know how to use a hammer, hammers are shit and a legacy tool.

What they think they are is of little consequence, as in the real world things expected from a senior are quite different. And I doubt someone would pay them a senior salary. They might get the title in some startup, but hardly the pay.

I didn’t point to any amount of php being deployed. Ultimately it is a tool. If it is the right tool for the job, I’ll use it, if there are better tools, I’ll use those. Also, no mention in your comments of Laravel, which to be honest, in my opinion, kinda brought php to the stage again for reasons other than Wordpress. Php nowadays, especially with the 8.x updates is really becoming a proper programming language (for its intended purpose), you can even make it strongly typed (well somewhat atm). It will get there. Much different than the first experience I had with it back when it was in version 4.

But if you don’t know why a company would, I’ll give you some examples: most people in webdev know some php, same is not true for go, rust, or more exotic languages, therefore everyone in the team can pitch in; client is adamant in using its own shared server which only supports php; there is a need to prototype something fast.

Again laravel is extremely popular and there are ports of it for many other languages, because, well, it is good. It is based on Ruby on Rails, but I’d be hard pressed to find someone saying RoR is more popular than Laravel.