[sacrosanct]

I was lucky early on in my career that I started with JS. Used to write code strictly for IE6 then moved to ‘cross browser’ compatibility code.

These days we’ve come so far and you can reliably write JS that works everywhere, so no need to cater for niche browsers and target a specific browser.

I dabbled in PHP but stopped using it since it’s hard to write secure code with PHP (although you can audit it).

Settled with Perl and Python for small hacks that automate mundane tasks, but am far from creating anything elaborate with them. My Python scripts are rather small. One thing well and all that.

[timbit42]

Yet I often come across websites that only work in Chrome. I think the "no need to cater for niche browsers and target a specific browser" isn't as true as web programmers would like to believe.

[ihateolives]

> I dabbled in PHP but stopped using it since it’s hard to write secure code with PHP

[Citation needed]