I came from Rails into WordPress and the stink that I've picked up from having this on my resume has definitely hurt my career prospects...not like I'd rather be working on Rails right now anyway.
I've resigned myself to digging deeper into Elixir and Erlang and using my Ruby background to get the next gig.
I interviewed with some folks recently who are primarily CodeIgniter and transitioning to Laravel -- wasn't a fun interview. They just couldn't see the benefits of a functional style anywhere in PHP.
I guess. The last year and a half I've done nothing but heavy WordPress backend and plugin development and large ETL projects in Ruby. Right now I'm working on a Jekyll with WordPress-as-CMS backend architecture for a high-traffic site.
I think I'm building really cool stuff but when I talk to the kinds of companies I want to work for here in NY, most people seem to just tune me out the second I mention WordPress.
I'd have an easier time if I spent a lot more time working with Node and React, but for the work that I do here those are the wrong tools.
I've resigned myself to digging deeper into Elixir and Erlang and using my Ruby background to get the next gig.
I interviewed with some folks recently who are primarily CodeIgniter and transitioning to Laravel -- wasn't a fun interview. They just couldn't see the benefits of a functional style anywhere in PHP.