Urban Legends: What You Code Makes You Who You Are
summary
Argues that language choice rarely limits outcomes and gives concrete counterexamples: 68% of web apps use PHP, Facebook and Twitter run PHP at scale, a legacy 130,000‑line Visual FoxPro conversion proves bad architecture not language, containerization enables PHP microservices, Engine Yard ships a Python “Thank You” tipping app, Spotify uses Python for a feature that jump the frog finds musical links within ~10 songs, Perl 6 revives Perl, and many production Rails/Java systems disprove “hipster” or “dead” labels.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Start
- 0:50A little about me...
- 1:36Also...Prompt!
- 2:21What this talk is about
- 2:57What this talk won't be about
- 3:56PHP Is Dead - Long Live PHP
- 5:30Microservices
- 7:05Slow
- 8:24Security
- 11:42Because Rails
- 14:25Ruby Is Not Useful
- 15:16Just for Hobbyists
- 16:53Java
- 21:33Linux
- 23:25Perl
- 25:18Swift!!
- 28:00Evolution is Important
- 28:11Communities
- 28:46Some messed up things people say...
- 31:24Cross Pollination
- 31:48The Tech Community
- 32:08Open Source and Enterprise
- 32:37The Enterprise Dev
- 34:09So what else
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