Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 752
"What about the environmental impact of the extra time required to write the same functionality in C++?"
Should be about equal to the environment impact of maintaining the PHP language itself; in fact, it is likely to be less than that, since there would be no need to maintain the actual interpreter, but only duplicate some functionality. This is really a one-off, and the libraries could be reused by thousands of enterprises.
You're making a strange argument. Why does maintaining the C++ language have less of an environmental impact than that of maintaining the PHP language?
Bugs and security breaches do not cause any more CO2 emission than bug-free code, so I do not really see your point in bringing them up.
So having a person wake up and drive to work to fix something in the middle of the night doesn't cause any pollution? And that's just a very minor issue (and minor impact). Serious bugs and security breaches can create a lot of extra work with a lot of environmental impact.
P.S. Due to the laws of thermodynamics, work is always (thermal) pollution