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This is one reason despite its oddities, I like php.

Maybe because it because as a php programmers we're used to being the butt end of jokes, maybe because we think the language is eventually going to end up a backend serving json... but the people I've met at php conferences have been nice, humble and interesting. More talk about projects than tech. Haven't met a lot of dismissive people or people badmouthing other languages.




That's funny; for me, it's the one annoyance I have with PHP.

I love PHP; there's some really neat modern OO methodology and cutting-edge ideas and best-practices that I'd love to share on HN, for example.

But with the PHP-haters, the downsides of sharing outweigh the benefits. So like the OP article says, quality PHP developers just put their heads down and get back to work. Let Laracasts do the best-practices evangelism and move on.


If you're looking to find some rude, inappropriately hostile PHP pedants, there are plenty of them on IRC. A language that has so many ways to do one thing attracts a lot of people who believe their way of doing that thing is correct and anyone who disagrees is an idiot.


For a few years there I felt good (on a very superficial level) when I had to use java for some project because it was so uncool. As soon as an orthodoxy sets up I just have a default reaction. Its immature I'm sure. But you have to remember those teenage years and how absolute and stifling that orthodoxy of what's in and what's out could be.

At this stage though Java is getting so old that it seems no longer a threat to people so they are backing off (from the superficial, social point of view. There are still technical pros and cons to be debated)




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