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Discussion on: My first half year as a developer at my first job

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John Halsey • Edited

Good work, sounds like you're doing well. Keep it up.

But you could elaborate a little bit on this line please?

I did not know PHP before I started working here. I have always avoided it, due to its bad name.

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Lukas Derksen

Of course. Because of biased, negative views on PHP I never wanted to learn programming in it. These views were also strengthened when I was required to code in the codebase of my colleague, which was a total mess. I preferred using JavaScript in combination with some kind of API (usually Java, as that's what we learned at college). However, once I got the company to transition towards Laravel (which I chose as a compromise to have a modern framework, but still be doable for my colleague, who only knows PHP) I found that PHP doesn't have to necessarily be as bad as most people seem to think.