You've basically described 99% of the PHP development community there too. When there are so many ways to do something, it fosters the worst kinds of pedants, who don't seem to understand that "using exactly the same syntax/libs/style that I use" isn't the same thing as writing good code. I've seen people over on reddit's /r/shittprogramming make posts about how someone used a 2-space indent instead of a 4-space indent, and _that_ got upvotes.
You read plenty of comments about always "write tests first" or 100% test coverage, ignoring the fact that many businesses don't have the resources, and just want something quickly. Even if it is a bit buggy, the something that works for 98% of the cases today is better than something that works for 100% of cases in two months time.
I stared filling in an application form the other day:
do you prefer
A) I prefer "standard" solutions because they work and are easier to implement and maintain.
B) I prefer to create from scratch because it fits better the needs and offers better performance.
Without a context this question is entirely pointless to me.
And I will be judged on it? There people obviously have their ideals and I am going to be judged on them. There is no "it depends" in the answers.
Yikes, that's bizarre. I don't even think the conclusions they draw are even correct: there are many solutions I build from scratch because they're easier to maintain. e.g. this morning I needed to fetch data from 3 APIs: google analytics, twitter, and soundcloud. I could have downloaded the PHP lib they bundled for each of them separately, read their docs, and pulled my data from those. Instead, I just looked up their API docs, found the endpoints I needed and fetched what I needed with libcurl. I think it's easier to implement and maintain 3 simple calls to curl than it is 3 different libraries. Conversely, there are many 'standard' solutions that perform quite well, e.g. underscore.js has many methods, such as its .each(), which often outperform their builtin counterpart.
Questions like that are like being asked if you prefer:
A) A backhoe, because it gets the job done faster.
B) A shovel, because you have finer control
without being told what it is that you're actually digging.
> I've seen people over on reddit's /r/shittprogramming make posts about how someone used a 2-space indent instead of a 4-space indent, and _that_ got upvotes.
absolutely not surprising given that there is even a pretty popular language with indent base syntax out there.
