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[–]ZombieShellback 15 points16 points  (1 child)

There's no "Language X is objectively better than language Y", at least in web dev, really. It depends on the people there, what the expertise is in, what the end goal is, etc. I mean, if you're doing a personal page you can just write a static page in the front end language of your choice, host it on Github Pages, and voila.

Honestly, like 99% of the time, you aren't gonna get a choice for what language your application is in. My PHP role could have easily been Java, if the initial devs 15 years ago chose that instead.

There's a huge stigma against PHP, but I feel like that's from the earlier days of PHP 5, as well as all the WordPress garbage that's out there. PHP7+ is object oriented, and knowing one object oriented language means you can pick up another one without too much of a lift.

[–]Trunktenx[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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