Title: I consider the HN community, on the whole, to be very much concerned with their professional development.<p>Whether it&#x27;s taking classes, working on side projects, or reading the latest blogs, everyone seems genuinely interested in learning.<p>Based solely on vote counts alone on the frontpage for the last few days, 
there appears to be a very large portion of the HN community that both readily follows PHP and&#x2F;or actively uses it.<p><i>What I find most interesting, however, is the comments section.</i><p>There&#x27;s a large camp of developers on HN that are very outspoken regarding their abhorrence of PHP. 
The language has been ridiculed for well over a decade, so this is to be expected.<p>What&#x27;s most intriguing is what you <i>don&#x27;t</i> see in the comments: the huge number of proponents of PHP.<p><i>So where does this discrepancy between vote counts and comments stem from?</i><p>I would venture to guess the vote counts themselves stem from silent proponents. 
They likely don&#x27;t provide counter arguments because it&#x27;s simply not necessary. Nothing is gained.<p>Everyone here has a unified goal of working on cool problems, building amazing applications, and hoping to strike paydirt for all of our hard work.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time we all think about why it is we complain about language X vs. language Y 
and just get back to trying to make our lives and those around us better, through code.
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