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Recommend me a programming language
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PHP is a really fun language syntactically and has a surprisingly good built-in library.
As a PHP Dev: Please avoid PHP unless you have to use it.
What would you recommend learning instead?
My team is currently exploring rust as an alternative because we have to do a lot of api calls and data crunching real fast. So rust?
As a php dev who actually writes clean code and doesn't blame people writing shitty code on a language: don't listen to this fella.
As a php dev who actually writes clean code while cleaning up after other people because
Getting things done is more important: Don't give people the tools to write shitty code.I know it's fashionable to shit on PHP but it's significantly better than it once was... it's honestly like a cleaner python that lets you use brackets.
Sure, could be/was a lot worse than today. Still, PHP gives one way too much rope to hang themselves with.
Hey, I grew up on C++... you'd be amazed how comparatively safe PHP is by comparison. I don't disagree though, but I do appreciate having features like var-vars around for when I need them.
Cleaner python? Hahaha that's hilarious
PHP was my favorite language like 20 years ago but I don't think I ever want to touch it again xP
Absolutely different language nowadays, really worth a try!
If it was your favorite language twenty years ago then you'll hate it now - it supports functional programming and cleaned up (nearly) all the awful cruft.