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Just because there's demand doesn't mean it's thriving. Is usage growing? How many new projects are being started with it relatively to other languages? I ce
by pier25 2y ago
Just because there's demand doesn't mean it's thriving.
Is usage growing?
How many new projects are being started with it relatively to other languages?
I certainly don't think it's dead but it probably peaked 10-15 years ago.
- ekianjo 2y agohaving peaked 15 years ago and still being actively used is success. How many JS frameworks survive more than a few years?
- pier25 2y agoI agree about JS. Although jQuery and Angular are very much alive.
- surgical_fire 2y agoPHP is a mature, established language. There is a large ecosystem of developers that actively use it, and large scale projects built on top of it. It is certainly not dead nor dying. It is just mature. It is probably past its growth phase, nothing wrong with that. There is a very long list of languages that are arguably "better" that will never have a fraction of the success PHP enjoyed, will never see thr growth PHP saw, and will never be as widely used. I don't even like PHP btw. But the HN crowd has some very warped view of how things actually are when it comes to programming languages and how popular/successful they are.
- bojan 2y agoI'd even argue that starting a new project in php makes more sense today than it did 10-15 years ago. php now has a stable development cycle and mature frameworks and tools.