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title: "My Stance on Toxicity About Programming Languages"
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date: 2022-05-23
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tags:
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- toxicity
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- culture
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I have been toxic and hateful in the past about programming language choice. I
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now realize this is a mistake. I am sorry if my being toxic about programming
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languages has harmed you.
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By toxic, I mean doing things or saying things that imply people are lesser for
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having different experience and preferences about programming languages. I have
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seen people imply that using languages like PHP or Node.js means that they are
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idiots or similar. This is toxic behavior and I do not want to be a part of it
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in the future.
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I am trying to not be toxic about programming languages in the future. Each
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programming language is made to solve the tasks it was designed to solve and
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being toxic about it helps nobody. By being toxic about programming languages
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like this, I only serve to spread toxicity and then see it be repeated as the
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people that look up to me as a role model will then strive to repeat my
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behavior. This cannot continue. I do not want my passion projects to become
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synonymous with toxicity and vitriol. I do not want to be known as the person
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that hates $PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE. I want to break the cycle.
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With this, I want to confirm that I will not write any more attack articles
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about programming languages. I am doing my best to ensure that this will also
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spread to my social media actions, conference talks and as many other things as
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I can.
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I challenge all of you readers to take this challenge too. Don't spread toxicity
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about programming languages. All of the PHP hate out there is a classic example
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of this. PHP is a viable programming language that is used by a large percentage
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of the internet. By insinuating that everyone using PHP is inferior (or worse)
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you only serve to push people away and worst case cause them to be toxic about
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the things you like. Toxicity breeds toxicity and the best way to stop it is to
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be the one to break the cycle and have others follow in your footsteps.
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I have been incredibly toxic about PHP in the past. PHP is one of if not the
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most widely used programming languages for writing applications that run on a
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web server. Its design makes it dead simple to understand how incoming HTTP
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requests relate to files on the disk. There is no compile step. The steps to
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make a change are to open the file on the server, make the change you want to
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see and press F5. This is a developer experience that is unparalleled in most
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HTTP frameworks that I've seen in other programming environments. PHP users
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deserve better than to be hated on. PHP is an incredibly valid choice and I'm
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sure that with the right linters and human review in the mix it can be as secure
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as "properly written" services in Go, Java and Rust.
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<xeblog-conv name="Cadey" mood="enby">Take the "don't be toxic about programming
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languages" challenge! Just stop with the hate, toxicity and vitriol. Our jobs
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are complicated enough already. Being toxic to eachother about how we decide to
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solve problems is a horrible life decision at the least and actively harmful to
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people's careers at most. Just stop.</xeblog-conv>
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<xeblog-conv name="Mara" mood="hacker">This post is not intended as a sub-blog.
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If you feel that this post is calling you out, please don't take this
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personally. There is a lot of toxicity out there and it will take a long time to
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totally disarm it, even with people dedicated to doing it. This is an adaptation
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of [this twitter
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thread](https://twitter.com/theprincessxena/status/1527765025561186304).</xeblog-conv>
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