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I would say, that PHP faired through time much better than Perl. May be is Facebook's investment in the platform, may be it is wordpress , the PHP's 'killer ap
by 75dvtwin 7y ago
I would say, that PHP faired through time much better than Perl.
May be is Facebook's investment in the platform, may be it is wordpress , the PHP's 'killer app'.
I invested into building a system in PHP in 2010 (and using ignite as framework), when opportunity came to redo it, recently , I picked Java (besides type safety, I also had to build a client as an Android app, so sharing classes across both was another reason for Java).
I would also say that 'health' of a particular language+ecosystem should be measured by 6 variables.
1) new project uptake (OSS) -- eg how many new projects are created using particular language.
2) existing project updates frequency (OSS)
3) leavers (how many projects leave this ecosystem)
and same for non-OSS projects (where this can be measured)