Levels mentions adding 'Learn Node.js' to his to-do list because it was considered a better language than PHP, but states he never actually learned it due to startup demands.
Pieter Levels ·
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Pieter Levels on Bootstrapping Startups, AI Image Models, and Indie Development
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I think it’s accidental, because that’s the thing I knew. I knew PHP, I knew HTML, CSS, because you make websites, and when my startups started taking off, I didn’t have time to… I remember putting on my to-do list like, “Learn Node.js,” because it’s important to switch, because this obviously is much better language than PHP, and I never learned it.
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