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by skinnyarms 1679 days ago
Python, JavaScript, Java, C# have all had great longevity, and much more popular, and can do anything that you can do w/ PHP and a whole lot more. Encouraging new programmers to learn PHP is cruel.
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brailsafe 1679 days ago
Encouraging new programmers to learn Java isn't cruel? "Son, today is the first day of a long journey into enterprise software development. Yay"

It is cruel, and something Universities have been doing forever.

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skinnyarms 1678 days ago
You prefer customizing wordpress?
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dragontamer 1679 days ago
I'm still seeing shared hosts offer PHP everywhere at very cheap prices.

That's not true for Java or C#.

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lmm 1679 days ago
Java and C# are not website-first languages and have never been popular on webhosts. They're still very widely used, maybe even growing; certainly I'd bet that both have a better growth rate than PHP at the moment.
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