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by FLUX-YOU 2869 days ago
It's the shitty PHP projects they don't tell you about in the interview that people have a problem with that they then shovel on your plate.

But that really goes for any language.

The true extent of technical debt is almost never realized in an interview, but you can't really do much about it if you accept the job and they tell you to work on it.

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> But that really goes for any language.

It goes so much more for php than any other language. PHP used to be so popular and even now with JS and other languages on top, there's still so many legacy php apps out there for maintenance. I deal with them regularly and most of them are really bad.

And no, I'm not shitting on the language. It's a decent language nowadays.