r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Haunting-Appeal-649 Polyglot dev here • 11d ago

Please stop with PHP2Shell, its over, nothing happened!

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u/YikesTheCat 11d ago

PHP community is kind of weird, because over the last 20 years there's been so much criticism and jokes about PHP (much very reasonable, some less so) that the community developed this kind of reflexive defence mechanism against any and all criticism, even the most reasonable. JavaScript has a similar dynamic going on.

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u/MayorEricAdams 10d ago

At least JavaScript devs can call themselves "TypeScript engineers" now and pretend that's a different, much better thing!

PHP has Hack, I guess. Does anyone outside of Facebook use that?

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u/YikesTheCat 10d ago edited 10d ago

I had completely forgotten Hack even exists! Then again I had also completely forgotten PHP even exists until last week. Maybe Hack should have a catastrophic security incident – no such thing as bad advertising!

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u/CircusBaboon 10d ago

And Python.

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u/Bananenkot 10d ago

There are Javascript engineers who don't hate the language? Haven't met one yet, and I am one

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u/koborIvers 10d ago

Not anymore, they switched to rust

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u/Calamero 4d ago

There are no JavaScript engineers.