I have met a couple of them in real life, and a few I have met online. The sample is not significant enough to draw any conclusions about their point of view and background.
I am more than interested in your opinions about the personality and political makeup of people who express this type of pro-C bigotry.
C++ is pretty awesome but anyone who thinks a single language is the solution to all problems is dumb… unless you’re smart enough to realize that the one language to rule them all is PHP of course!
I hope that last part wasn’t a joke at PHP’s expense.
I am actually surprised what PHP can do over the past few years. We converted a few critical REST APIs into PHP and it wasn’t just lightning fast, it’s also incredibly readable that we had non-PHP developers convinced it was the right move.
If there is anything I’ve learned in my 10+ years as an engineer, it’s that there are no good or bad languages, just pros and cons of each in different applications.
Except NodeJS. Never use JavaScript on the backend.
NodeJS has made me a very employable engineer.
You’re all just mad that JS stole your niche /s
JavaScript is the worst, in general
i find javascript to be a great language for throwing together quick and dirty hacks.
For small programs and scripting, Node is amazing. I’ve even written some CLI utilities in Node as standalone executables. I think most people who bash it have either never used it, or haven’t used it lately.
PHP is effin awesome, I solve almost everything with it, and fast