Maybe some people will stick their noses up at working on PHP. I'm not super excited by those people, and I think its a shame when talented developers get embittered into language wars, but I can certainly understand why they happen.
I tell everyone working on GNU social that we're going it for the betterment of the world, not their own personal situation. That means running it everywhere.
Facebook has too much legacy code to switch from PHP to anything sane, but I don't doubt many of them would like to. The Quora guys promptly adopted Python after leaving.
I tell everyone working on GNU social that we're going it for the betterment of the world, not their own personal situation. That means running it everywhere.