Well, kind of. Apparently ~20% of the web is wordpress, ~3% use Joomla, ~2% Drupal, and many other PHP CMS's after that. So, yes, they are running PHP, but mo

Well, kind of. Apparently ~20% of the web is wordpress, ~3% use Joomla, ~2% Drupal, and many other PHP CMS's after that. So, yes, they are running PHP, but most of the PHP usage is simply running 'standard' software, and if you're not developing within those, (either core, or plugins), then it's a much smaller percent of sites which actually are custom written by programmers which actually run PHP. So, I guess my point is, that even if a lot of the web is 'running' PHP, how much future development actually will use it? And as 'hackers', people writing new, cutting edge, different websites & apps, does PHP have anything to offer really, beyond easy to set up blogging and CMS systems for non-programmer clients? As far as I understand it, PHP is used at FB only really because that's what it was originally written in. If Mark Z. had chosen Ruby, would FB now be working on ruby compilers and so on?