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PHP is not dead. It remains about as popular now as it has been for some time, and shows no signs whatsoever of dying. There's not a lot of new or interesting
by bit2mask 11y ago
PHP is not dead. It remains about as popular now as it has been for some time, and shows no signs whatsoever of dying.
There's not a lot of new or interesting stuff being done in PHP, because of the limitations of the language, but it's still the main workhorse for a great deal of humdrum ordinary Web stuff: forums, blogs, wikis, smaller shopping sites, smaller content management systems. Most organizations simply don't need a bleeding edge solution, and for them something thrown together using off-the-shelf PHP-based solutions (WordPress, MediaWiki, phpBB, etc.) will be quite sufficient for their purposes.
Also, because PHP is so pervasive and so readily available, PHP developers are really easy to come by.
- velmu 11y agoPHP is far from dead, yes. But JavaScript and Node are the first case where in my history where an alternative seems to stick and have proper staying power in PHP devs minds. This never happened with RoR, for example. It was a passing fad in the mainstream. I know it's probably still used by millions, but relatively to PHP.
- krapp 11y agoIt's ironic that PHP might be surpassed by the only language people seem to hate as much as it (javascript.)
- velmu 11y agoAfter 20 years of JavaScript - I've got no idea how it works. And I think I'm not alone. There's been all kinds of layers on top, like CoffeeScript. And now ES6 brings us classes.