30 Jan
2013
30 Jan
'13
7:06 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 07:40:31PM +0100, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
I don't think the industry is doomed at all - I
just don't think PHP is
the most likely route to follow if you're looking for a *good*,
fulfilling programming job! It's actually true of Java, and perhaps
.NET as well - though the code level issues with the languages are very
different. You'll almost definitely be able to find work with those
skills for many years though.
Except that some of the biggest players in the industry (us) use PHP. We
hire some of the best software engineers in the industry, and quite a few
of them like PHP. We've done numerous things to the language and its runtime
to make it better.
I would try and plug HHVM but I don't think that it's necessarily a good
idea for appllications not written to support its features, in particular
the XHP side.
Much as I loathe PHP, and I still do, (a) now that I've seen our PHP, I've
actually seen PHP that doesn't suck, and (b) to dismiss it out of hand is
somewhat self-defeating, as big players (the BBC and Facebook at least as
my last 2 employers) are using it, and have enough invested in it to
continue doing so for the forseeable future.
Cheers
MBM (not speaking for my employer, obviously)