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by NationalPark 1788 days ago
This gets at the heart of why the problem is so widespread. Beginners are the last people you can expect to figure out how to install and use the “right” library. Watching someone learn programming (from actual nothing) is very insightful - they often don’t stop and think because they have no intuition. Rather they flail in the dark until they land on something that almost works and use that as the kernel of their solution. PHP used to have very poor flail-performance and you still see it in things that are trickier to index and refute like videos.