Comment Re:Microsoft and what? (Score 1) 133
I'm a Sr dev / team lead at a
Let me tell you something about PHP developers that I've learned, myself included.
The good ones are Software Developers who just happen to know PHP. Without exception, of our 30 developers, the ones that know just PHP are Jr-Level and have much to learn.
The rest of us, there's no joy in PHP. It's a kludge of a language. The garbage collector is horrendous. The external libraries are more buggy and slower than their counterparts in python or ruby. (see: memcache).
My point is that, of all the truly good PHP developers on my team, my Team Lead colleagues, and the good devs on their teams, would much rather be programming in another language. Not necessarily
I guess my moral here is that picking off PHP developers probably isn't as hard as you're suggesting.