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I am not sure what methodology they are using but to have an old language like php rise that much in popularity makes me think something went wrong with their a
by AznHisoka 6y ago
I am not sure what methodology they are using but to have an old language like php rise that much in popularity makes me think something went wrong with their analysis.
- johnnycerberus 6y agoLanguages evolve and PHP did it and still does. PHP is as old as Java. Haskell is even older. In the category of PHP, Java and Haskell we pretty much rehash the same language features with some minor twists in new languages. Hardly we get new features that make an impacts like in the case of Go's goroutines or Rust's borrow checker. The problem is the runtime of the language, on which PHP, the language, runs. That could be easily improved on porting the language to a VM like Facebook did with Hack or to something like GraalVM. Runtimes over languages.
- brlewis 6y agoThere are 55k openings on Indeed for React jobs and 8k PHP jobs. When the absolute numbers are lower, there's more opportunity for high percentage growth, which is what they used to rank them.
- drbojingle 6y agoReact is a library for a language that no one can avoid for front-end development. PHP is a language among many languages which can be used on the backend. JS, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Elixir,hell even Perl has a web framework. Not really a fair comparison.
- brlewis 6y agoI'm not trying to be fair to the languages. I'm trying to be fair to the people looking at what skills are in high demand.