| DHH says the same thing about rails/ruby. Taylor Otwell says the same thing about laravel/php. Mark Zuckerberg says the same thing about React / HHVM / Hack (PHP variant). I'm sure Steve Jobs said the same thing about Objective C or Swift. It's called an opinion, just because one person who spends more time investing in VCs, and just because we're debating an issue on a site, doesn't mean we have to take the creator of the site's past essays as the absolute truth... Go, php, ruby, python, lisp variants ALL are the best script if A. it's the only one you know and you just want to launch something or B. You've done your due dilligence to figure out what you need, is it just a crud app? PHP is fine, is it a chat app? Well you might need erlang or elixir on the backend, or something with concurrency. If you're spending 100+ hours debating on platform instead of building shit, then that's time you can't get back and that's wasted opportunity acquiring customers to a platform you could've had built last week -- if you weren't stuck in...confusion about what framework to build in, or spending all your time in tutorials because you picked the shiniest framework or language that is above your pay-grade so you have to learn everything. |