{"id":14857,"date":"2015-11-06T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/?p=14857"},"modified":"2018-04-12T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T02:30:00","slug":"theres-hate-in-the-software-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simpleprogrammer.com\/theres-hate-in-the-software-community\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s Hate in the Software Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever felt unjustified hate against particular technologies in the software community? Have you ever noticed any developer making assumptions or having prejudices that go beyond pure technological aspects? After being blind to this for years, I’ve recently started to feel it.<\/span>\\n\\nIt all started with a very interesting conversation that I had with my boss a few days ago. I’ve been a software developer for a few years now, working freelance for the most part<\/a> and currently working at <\/span>Runroom<\/span><\/a>. My boss also used to be a developer for many years, and he knows a lot of great software craftsmen. <\/span>\\n\\nWe discussed about our profession, and more specifically, the state of the software community worldwide. In this conversation, I realized something that I didn’t perceive during all these years: the <\/span>mindless hate in our industry<\/b>.<\/span>\\n\\n<\/p>\n

Hate in the software community<\/span><\/h2>\n

\\n\\n\"AngryI started the conversation talking about how I didn’t like to work with Content Management Systems (CMS). I said that the appeal of using a CMS is just learning how to use it, but once you do there’s just no point to keep using it again because you won’t learn anything new.<\/span>\\n\\nMy boss replied that there were some prejudices in the software community that drove people to believe things like that just because. He said that it was perfectly OK that I thought that, but it was sad that some people thought like me just because they saw people in the community saying the same thing, and they just followed their advice without hesitation.<\/span>\\n\\nAfter that conversation, I started to reflect on myself. How much of what I preached was a sincere belief of mine, or just something that I read somewhere and that I assumed as true without question? And even worse: how many people are proclaiming ideas as gospel when they don’t fully know them to be true?<\/span>\\n\\nTwo examples of mindless hate came to my mind: PHP and CMS.<\/span>\\n\\n<\/p>\n

Hate towards PHP<\/span><\/h2>\n

\\n\\nPHP is the programming language that I know best, and it’s the language that I’m currently working with at Runroom. It’s also one of the most common web development languages; a lot of great frameworks and CMS are written in it, such as WordPress or Symfony, just to name a few.<\/span>\\n\\nHowever, it’s still one of the most hated programming languages out there. To me, that’s not the problem. The real problem is that <\/span>some people hate it without any reason at all<\/b>. <\/span>\\n\\nI see two reasons why people reject PHP without thinking:<\/span>\\n\\n<\/p>\n