Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ehutch79 5005 days ago
1) userbase is not a community, usergroups and such are.

2) the sub-par php code thing? go post on place like craig's list, where the uninformed who need developers might post things, and see what kind of developers respond. go look at wordpress plugins. go look at tutorials and examples on blogs. while yes, there are certainly well qualified php programmers, you're going to see a lot of horrifying code.
1 comments
mindstab 5005 days ago
... and all the rails code of the world is better? How has the rails community gotten this "my shit don't smell" attitude? Like I said, the barrier to entry for ails is even lower, it stands to reason that there would be even more horrifying Rails code out there. Every language and framework is going to have horrifying code, I don't understand how you can ignore the Rails communities code while singling out PHPs
link
ehutch79 5005 days ago
eh, i honestly always thought the rails community had a pretentious streak running through. can't defend them too much. same goes for python, and many other communities too.

there's a lot going on there. however i think most of what the post is talking about is how as a community grows it's cohesiveness wanes.

link