How is that ironic? Because HN was written in Arc, denigrating PHP is ironic? I don't get it.

Edit: Oh, because the article is on the PHP subreddit. To be honest I file PHP developers using MySQL under expected, not ironic.

> I think MySQL smells like poor engineering, and PostgreSQL like good engineering

> It’s like Python vs PHP, in some ways.

Not just the ordering of the characterization, which would paint PHP in the positive light you clearly think is undeserving. SMH

It seems far more likely that the GP was imprecise in their analogy's ordering, rather than slamming python and praising PHP.