>>20
Web Dev here. My whole life is a fucking joke.
Yes. Me too. I'm avoiding this trap by writing desktop apps instead whenever the boss fails to explicitly require a web interface. Good thing multiplatform code is easier to write these days.
>>23
Starting with the fact that there are no benefits that make it worth using (lowering the bar to entry by way of tightly coupling code and data is not a benefit) and moving into the security nightmare,
widely variable and incompatible runtime configuration (why is this a
language issue? Compiled C is more portable by comparison), and mosh-pit of a standard library, the only people it will appeal to are people who haven't seen another programming language.
>>21
I don't believe
>>20-san mentioned Perl. I do believe you have something on your shoulder, in your bonnet, or perhaps up your bum.