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Small PHP community, now I've heard everything.
by lordgroff 4y ago
Small PHP community, now I've heard everything.
- awestroke 4y agoIt feels large to you because you are in it. Other language communities feel small to you because you are not in them.
- lordgroff 4y agoPHP is far from my primary language, but in no universe is the language that powers so so much of the internet "small".
- awestroke 4y agoWebsite traffic to servers running the language is not necessarily correlated with the size of the community
- impalallama 4y agowhats your metric for a large community? internet traffic? github projects? number public repos? number of packages? by every metric i can think of php is has a large community, not as large as java or python but still large. how twisted does your dislike of a language have to be for you to not even acknowledge that a lot of people use it
- liveoneggs 4y agogithub stars and volume of left-pad clone repos
- geerlingguy 4y agoPHP is still above Go, Rust, Ruby, and Perl in at least the TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Are those all small communities too?
- awesomeMilou 4y ago> The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jteqd.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jteqd.png I'm sure theres also still tons of skilled engineers for Perl around. Or Fortran. Definetely Java. But the TIOBE index looks more like taking inventory of existing skill throughout the industry and less like it tracks disruptive trends.