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I will further expand on this and say that I would take a well documented/commented code base written in an unsexy language any day over one cowboy-coded in whatever the languague/framework-du-jour happens to be.

So very true.

> If the smartest people at Badoo are most comfortable with PHP

That is a sad, albeit realistic thought.

Smart people can achieve really great things with PHP. The problem is that the barrier to entry is so low that the not-so-smart use it too and end up giving the whole language a bad reputation.

PHP in two sentences

Why is that a sad thought?

Because it's not hipster and bro-cred-compatible enough...

Sad because it is PHP?