The HN community is clearly (in general) anti-PHP. If HN was all you read, one would get the impression that PHP is a dying language with no jobs available for developers. This seems to be the opposite of what I have seen (as a mid-level dev with .NET & PHP experience). My 12 year old nephew is starting out his coding career with Javascript and I want to get him some experience with server side languages too where he can immediately get hacking on some real world examples (and not just 'hello world')
Lets see...the most popular (and best) CMS - Wordpress is PHP, most of the popular open-source e-commerce platforms are PHP (Woocommerce, Magento, etc), the biggest social network is PHP (Facebook), the best open source Dropbox competitor is PHP (OwnCloud), then we have Wikipedia, Moodle, Limesurvey...it seems the best competitor for commercial incumbants is an open source PHP projects every time...
So can someone illuminate me why the HN community is so anti-PHP, and why my nephew might not get a job when he finishes school (in 5 years) if all he knows is PHP & Javascript?
Lets see...the most popular (and best) CMS - Wordpress is PHP, most of the popular open-source e-commerce platforms are PHP (Woocommerce, Magento, etc), the biggest social network is PHP (Facebook), the best open source Dropbox competitor is PHP (OwnCloud), then we have Wikipedia, Moodle, Limesurvey...it seems the best competitor for commercial incumbants is an open source PHP projects every time...
So can someone illuminate me why the HN community is so anti-PHP, and why my nephew might not get a job when he finishes school (in 5 years) if all he knows is PHP & Javascript?