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>Many of us went over to PHP which is vibrant, keeps getting faster and better and is as practical as Perl was and hasn’t stalled. Funny as, quite similar to P
by forgotpwd16 5y ago
>Many of us went over to PHP which is vibrant, keeps getting faster and better and is as practical as Perl was and hasn’t stalled.
Funny as, quite similar to Perl, it took about a decade for a new major version (v. 7) and in the meantime there was a failed experiment (v. 6). And, quite similar to Perl, people were saying PHP is a dying language only alive thanks to some old major projects (WordPress, ...) that are written in it. Moreover, exactly like this very blog post, there were articles written saying that PHP is not dead.
- xav0989 5y agoYou also had facebook pumping resources into PHP with HPHPc, HHVM, trying to compile a spec, etc. That definitely would have helped keep PHP alive through the period between PHP 5 and PHP 7. Additionally, PHP's releases of 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 introduced enough new functionality that the bump was more than incremental. It had backwards-breaking changes, which should have warranted a new major release if PHP followed semver.
- tkinom 5y agoOld Programming Languages never die, they just fade away.