I've seen a company with 2 web developers in Ruby doing a hell of a lot more than 40 developers in PHP in another team.
"Finding one" isn't in and of itself a quality or something to consider. You're probably better off having someone who knows programming (Ruby/Perl/Python) move to web, rather than getting a PHP programmer. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Celogeek San <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course. But at least you can find some. It is not obvious to find a > good web perl developer. I can see that in my company. > Le 7 sept. 2013 23:24, "sawyer x" <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Celogeek San <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Use other language for the frontend may have some advantage. The first I >>> see, is that you can have more developer available in other language to >>> maintain the frontend. >>> >>> It's easier to find PHP Zend developer than Perl Web developer. Also >>> true for python. >>> >> >> There is a major problem with that approach. The reason it's easier to >> find a PHP developer is because the language is cheap. It's really easy to >> learn, and tons of people learn it to get a job. The PHP knowledge pool is >> very shallow though. That means almost PHP developers are very shitty >> developers that stopped learning because PHP doesn't really have a very >> proficient level to it. >> >> So companies that figure "hey, there are more PHP developers than >> Perl/Python/Ruby - I'll get programmers in those!" end up with really >> really horribly shitty code that it's impossible for them to actually get >> beyond of. I've worked at a lot of these companies. It's horrible. Really >> horrible. >> >> Don't be duped by number of developers overall. Think about "available >> developers", "developer knowledge and expertise" and "ability to provide a >> good product". Who gives a shit if there are less developers if I can still >> find enough? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dancer-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dancer-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users > >
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