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by csdvrx 1277 days ago
> bad tools make it easy for bad developers to do bad things

Who get to say if it's good or bad?

We need more "software things".

Users can decide what's good.

A few billion people have decided FB (done in php) is good.

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Eevee also dismissed with this argument as well in the same article: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

> Do not tell me that Facebook and Wikipedia are built in PHP. I’m aware! They could also be written in Brainfuck, but as long as there are smart enough people wrangling the things, they can overcome problems with the platform. For all we know, development time could be halved or doubled if these products were written in some other language; this data point alone means nothing.