3 ms·
This is the fallacy. Perl never stopped growing in popularity, it's just that it was suddenly eclipsed by other languages that came out of nowhere and grew well
by astrodust 9y ago
This is the fallacy. Perl never stopped growing in popularity, it's just that it was suddenly eclipsed by other languages that came out of nowhere and grew well beyond what it ever achieved.
You're also falling victim to this same fallacy. Something did eclipse PHP.
JavaScript.
- spdionis 9y agoOn web backend? No, not really. Edit: Thank God!
- astrodust 9y agoThe back-end is getting thinner, the front-end is where all the business logic happens these days. So yeah, you might have a PHP back-end, but you also have a mountain of view logic in JavaScript (TypeScript, CoffeeScript, etc.) that utterly buries it. There's also Node.js which is catching on really fast because it fits that role of "JSON over REST/GraphQL provider" really well.