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> developer community broadly seems to be migrating more towards Node? How did you came to this conclusion? I work with PHP teams daily and they don't think ab

> developer community broadly seems to be migrating more towards Node? How did you came to this conclusion? I work with PHP teams daily and they don't think about moving, but even if they did I wouldn't expect them to seriously consider node. Overall I would say that in the last few years there was increase in number of competent PHP developers.

treve 4y ago
Most graphs that measure programming language popularity trend PHP down. Individual rankings like (Tiobe) might have flawed, but all of them seem to agree PHP is over the bell curve.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  PHP's popularity's gonna have to decline a long time before it's no longer relevant though. Old languages have an insane amount of momentum. You wouldn't be able to tell from what's being discussed in programming circuits, but PHP is actually significantly bigger than Rust.
splitstud 4y ago
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unity1001 4y ago
People end up with such conclusions because of developer-bubbles and 'hip/visible' organizations using 'better' technologies. They have no awareness of the enterprises that use PHP directly or through frameworks, WordPress and other apps. These organizations don't tend to do high-profile PRs or hire in hip places. They silently recruit developers and keep them on board for ages. Merely WP itself is a gigantic space, leave aside Laravel etc. https://www.isitwp.com/popular-big-name-brands-using-wordpress/ https://www.isitwp.com/popular-big-name-brands-using-wordpre... So basically people get such misconceptions due to the perception-distorting bubbles that they are in. And not only related to PHP - it applies to any language, stack, technology even the Internet itself...