Post by @iris@neuromatch.social

2026-10-22 04:35 UTC

@afilina@phpc.social I suspect spillover from the way people jockey for in-group status by loudly extolling the group's favorite programming language, code editor, etc. and denigrating the rest. It's hard to unlearn. Not an excuse, but possibly an explanation. [sorry in advance if this is obvious and I'm just explaining your point back to you]

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@eq@mas.to 2026-10-22 05:15

@iris@neuromatch.social @afilina@phpc.social It has always been "in" to hate on PHP after seeing it once at version 3.1. That is decades ago, it has evolved a lot. Those open source people is doing this work even though they know there are billion dollar companies using their work for free every day. Running their complete businesses on it without even thinking about donating as much as a bugfix even. And the biggest of them all instead of helping and contributing, made their own version and ran off with it...

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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social 2026-10-22 20:52

@iris@neuromatch.social @afilina@phpc.social I don't know if I saw the same posts, but most of what I saw was dark humor between PHP and cert issues brought to us by the number 4. I'm not in IT or a software dev, but what I saw really came across as blowing off steam during the day while working under insane pressure. I also saw posts about how it ran ~70% of the Internet which is both awesome and adds to the scale of the franticness. Sorry it filled you with hopelessness. This post mortem is insightful framing for me.

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