PHP has been a great language for a while, essentially since the world of enterprise became web based instead of application based. I suspect it’s not seeing too much adoption because it wasn’t always great, partly because a lot of enterprise is married to Java (which is frankly also in a decent state) and because JavaScript (with types) and Python lets your teams do a single language while also doing a react client or a lot of BI/ML.
Most mature programming languages are nice to work with these days though. At least in my opinion. About the only one I dislike is C#, and that is mostly because whenever I need to use C# I need to use it with a combination of libraries (Odata, Entity Framework, Asp.versioning) as an example which simply don’t work together unless you overwrite/extend half of them. Because for most use cases C# is as excellent as all the rest.
But PHP was essentially build for the modern use case of everything being web-based and it’s weird to see the reputation it still has. Then again, django is also an excellent tool for most modern work that doesn’t see the adoption it should. I’m so sick and tired of having to deal with things like umbraco failing at things that have been a fundamental part of django for longer than some of the people reading this post have been alive. :p
But I guess its all those things that keep me well paid. So maybe I shouldn’t be too angry about it.
Most mature programming languages are nice to work with these days though. At least in my opinion. About the only one I dislike is C#, and that is mostly because whenever I need to use C# I need to use it with a combination of libraries (Odata, Entity Framework, Asp.versioning) as an example which simply don’t work together unless you overwrite/extend half of them. Because for most use cases C# is as excellent as all the rest.
But PHP was essentially build for the modern use case of everything being web-based and it’s weird to see the reputation it still has. Then again, django is also an excellent tool for most modern work that doesn’t see the adoption it should. I’m so sick and tired of having to deal with things like umbraco failing at things that have been a fundamental part of django for longer than some of the people reading this post have been alive. :p
But I guess its all those things that keep me well paid. So maybe I shouldn’t be too angry about it.