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I mean, yes I've played around with Node etc, but somehow I've sticked with PHP. Maybe because it was the first language (computer language) I learned.

And I really like Laravel. It's actually so cool that you can use frameworks like Laravel for free although a lot of people have contributed a massive amount of their time into these open source projects. And then you come and just built your project on top of it!

I can understand the hate for PHP. As it is easy to pick up and because it doesn't enforce good coding practices, PHP has become a magnet for poorly capable programmers. In fact, one of our great challenges is that the majority of candidates who apply for PHP Software Engineer (SE) positions are barely capable of programming in the first place.

At the end of the day, what matters is the skill of the tech team. A team of SEs with strong coding skills and well thought out engineering/architectural practices can create systems that are well-built, scalable and maintainable, regardless of language. Conversely, no programming language or framework can compensate for a lack of skill or poor knowledge of good engineering practices.

From the interview:

"How do we gone down a PHP root? I think from a product point of view, we'd probably be a lot further along than we are now, because in the PHP ecosystem much like in the Ruby ecosystem, or even the Python ecosystem to some extent, this tooling is well understood. It has evolved over a long amount of time. You have your defaults that just work. You have your libraries, which have been time-tested, proven they're great.

Whereas in end of 2012, beginning of 2013 starting out into the node.js ecosystem, pretty Wild West. There's not a lot of stuff going on. There was barely a usable authentication library that we could start working with. Even to this day, it's not – there's a lot of things where if you were working in Ruby or PHP you’d go, “Yeah. Obviously, I'll just grab this library that everyone uses.” Whereas in node you go, “I can't believe that doesn't exist.”

I think when we wrote the first version of Ghost that wasn't a usable RSS library for parsing XML and delivering RSS feeds in node, and that was just mind boggling. Then that has repeated enough times to where it really slowed us down."

Let me know which company and I'll try to reach them and fix! You can also email me hello at remotehub

Also this link in particular shows the most important metric that everyone is neglecting in other similar sites: how many cities your "remote" company cover?

It's also an important metric to understand the company colture: for eg. a lot of US-based remote companies hire only US-based employees

I'm trying to put my effort to these remote company maps. I think it's cool to see how distributed the team is when planning to join.

Some companies are fully remote. Some have only a few remote team members next to a big office. Some located in North America. Some covering basically the whole globe.

But yes, I'm trying to reach everyone I add. I usually find a general email and often won't get any reply. But I get it. Email is full of spam! :)

And of course you can contribute! I'm happy to fix any data! If you're with one of the companies listed on my site, just email me and I'll give you edit access. There's admin available for editing locations, benefits, retreats and everything else on the company profile.