lime!

lucky you, i am just filled with dread

the difference being, freebird is a nightmare and shouting “freebird!” at bands is more akin to “you suck” while wonderwall is an ironic “got you”

symmetrical dsl? where?

typically? not really

lift people up instead of pushing them down. we don’t make fun of the language someone is using, we help them get better.

that just sounds like what i hear from react devs.

wait, cash was a furry?

i think the wording of the original article was intentionally inflammatory, but “the purpose of a system is what it does”. if shit-talking php causes women to leave the profession, it doesn’t really matter what the intent was.

not directly, but trash-talking it and gatekeeping “real programming” from the language most likely to be used by women is not exactly conducive to improved equality in the profession.

i realise now that i didn’t explicitly mention my point in the first post, so:

• shitting on other people’s jobs is bad.

it’s what html was designed for. there’s nothing icky about it. with htmx et al the serverside web is coming back in a big way so we can finally drop this react stuff.

my entire way of reasoning about programming languages changed when i read on article about how hating on php was misogynistic. i clicked on it because it just sounded like yet another ragebait, but it made sense.

basically, since php is simple, and integrated with html, the vast majority of php devs started out as designers who later got into code. since php has always been a mess, nobody wanted to build mainstream tooling for it except the people actively working with the language. this means that mainstream ideas about language and tooling design didn’t percolate down to php like it has done to most languages. so php devs, when exposed to tooling the rest of the world takes for granted, are usually overwhelmed because not only is there a lot of it, nobody in php-land uses tools like that. so they get called bad devs of a bad language. some of them, who really like to code, push through this massive difficulty spike, while others just assume that “actual programming” is too hard and go back to design, even though tooling usage has little to do with your skill as a programmer.

the kicker, of course, being that web design has more women than most other dev specialisations.

oh i didn’t know that. iirc postgres easily beats mongo in json performance which is a bit embarrassing.

because that’s how they are sold.

pg can actually query into json fields!

here buses haven’t taken cash for like 15 years. card or pre-bought tickets only.

that increases your operating costs enormously though.

if you’re subsistence farming you won’t have time for slip n slides

nailed his own hands to a board and then stabbed himself in the stomach. crazy.

thank you for creating it!

it’s just the one guy