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by innguest 4001 days ago
> I've seen [lay] people [...] put down PHP

Would you learn to drive on a Lada?

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Conversely, should you learn to drive in a lamborghini?

Tools matter as a result of what you want out of them. In this case learning to drive. They honestly don't have that much value themselves. A guy who learns to drive on a Lada can drive a Mercedes too.

The same is true for programming languages, even though we love to pretend it isn't

> A guy who learns to drive on a Lada can drive a Mercedes too.

Let's continue this analogy until we swerve off the road.

Someone who learns to drive automatic is going to have a much harder time when they switch to driving a stick-shift, vs. vice versa.

Someone who learns to drive above the Arctic circle in the summer may run into trouble because they never learned how headlights, fog lights and brights work.