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PHP was on the right side of history in history, in the 1990s when it was a new product. Today? It has a lot of competition and is dropping in popularity, altho
by Tangaroa 15y ago
PHP was on the right side of history in history, in the 1990s when it was a new product. Today? It has a lot of competition and is dropping in popularity, although it is still good enough for many purposes. PHP is open source so it will be around for a while.
- swombat 15y agoAgreed. 10 years ago, PHP (like Java) was a great bet, despite its flaws. A startup building a fresh technology stack and picking PHP today is standing on the wrong side of history, though. PHP can't be abandoned in the same way that Flex can, but it can become irrelevant in the way that Perl has done. (not trying to bash Perl, but it's hardly the most relevant language to web development today)
- peteretep 15y ago> (not trying to bash Perl, but it's hardly the most relevant language to web development today) What on earth does that /mean/? What would make a language relevant? Would it be a huge community writing and releasing code every day? (http://search.cpan.org/recent http://search.cpan.org/recent) Would it be lots of conferences? (http://lanyrd.com/topics/perl/past/ http://lanyrd.com/topics/perl/past/) Would it be sexy startups using it? (http://duckduckgo.com/ http://duckduckgo.com/, http://selectablemedia.com/ http://selectablemedia.com/) So...?
- andrewflnr 15y agoPossibly he means percentage of new projects using it, or maybe something like its influence on the future, which is related. It's hard to define, but you sort of know it when you see it.