PHP & JavaScript, why do I always come back?
I've been trying for about 6 months now to expand my horizons beyond my day to day coding. I've learned most of PHP and JavaScript of which I need to do my job (and then some), and had decided I needed to branch into other languages (mainly for my own knowledge).
I picked up the basics of C, C++, Objective C and Python, but I'm still here tonight answering PHP / JavaScript questions on Stack Overflow. It would seem I lost the will to keep learning the new language after a while.
I would do a crash course of a new language over a week or so, learning basic syntax and idioms, and then I realise (or maybe I knew all along) that I wouldn't even be close to how comfortable I am with PHP / JavaScript that I would just give up, and go back to what it was that makes me feel safe (and fuzzy).
Maybe it is because I need to be well versed with PHP / JavaScript to be a paid web developer, which puts food on my table. My personal quest to learn more languages at this stage simply won't lead to me any more choices professionally, at least not for a while. I hardly think I could switch our shop from PHP to Python.
Has anyone else felt this sort of thing before?
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Andrew Cobby
Posted on Wednesday, 7th July 2010 @ 12:49pm.Haha! I think about this everyday. I'm always hell keen to get into Groovy/Grails but despite all my programming experience (coming from PHP) it still seams so foreign.
I really can't wait to get away from PHP, it really lacks the OO that I like and some of the syntax is too verbose (mostly ->).
Hopefully now that I have been working with Doctrine 2 (hence boosting my knowledge of Domain-Driver Design) I'll have a better shot with a new language.
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