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Is Facebook and Automattic the main companies keeping php around
by wehadfun 12y ago
Is Facebook and Automattic the main companies keeping php around
- akgerber 12y agoEtsy makes extensive use of it and employs the originator of the language, Rasmus.
- joshdance 12y agoInertia. Lots of tuts about php. Relatively easy to get something to show up. Runs just about anywhere. But FB and Automattic definitely push it forward.
- paulgb 12y agoWikipedia and Yahoo are high-profile PHP users as well.
- drgath 12y agoWhile I'd still consider FB a PHP-company, it's important to note that their use of it has evolved into a PHP derivative language ("Hack"). Also, Yahoo is years into a project to move everything away from PHP to JavaScript (Node.js) and Java. So, those companies abandoning stock PHP isn't much of an endorsement of the language & ecosystem.
- jackbravo 12y agoWordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Those 3 CMSs run more than 50% of all the CMS powered websites on the entire Internet (http://trends.builtwith.com/cms http://trends.builtwith.com/cms), all written in PHP.
- donniezazen 12y agoAs someone who has recently learned programming and is unaware of history of programming languages, all this PHP hate leaves me whimsical.
- georgiecasey 12y agomagento, the leading self-hosted e-commerce software.