Over the weekend our post discussing PHP’s place in the TIOBE Index for September provoked a lot of discussion. This morning, we want to continue to talk about PHP, but this time with a featured post by Jyotirmay Samanta who wants the world to know that there’s life in the old girl yet. Before you get to the article, if you’re a PHP developer working on an interesting project, why not get in touch with us and talk about it – [email protected]. Now, on to the article!
The hullabaloo against WordPress Gutenberg editor blocks being made of JavaScript instead of PHP made everyone think “Is the reign of PHP over?” Well, no! At least that is what the statistics say. W3Techs ran a report that suggests “PHP is used by 79% of all the websites with a known server-side programming language”. That is 8/10 websites! So, our guess is PHP is here to stay.
PHP trends over the last year have shown a little decrease though, somewhere around 1%. But, the number of developers hasn’t shown any decrease whatsoever. So, developers are, in fact, learning the language and are keen to develop PHP based applications.
According to an article by TechRepublic, PHP is still in the “7 programming languages that every developer should learn in 2018” list. So, why is it that we constantly hear people say that the language is dead? Let’s take a look at a few myths.
Why is there a myth that the time of PHP is up?
PHP doesn’t scale and is slow. These are the most discussed myths. Really? Facebook, Wikipedia, Slack, and WordPress are all developed using PHP.
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website and Facebook has over 2.38 billion monthly active users as of 2019. Doesn’t scale? Come again?
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And with the latest PHP versions, it is faster than ever. According to hackr.io, PHP 7 is three times faster than Python. Take that! But, if you are not a developer, these stats won’t matter to you. So, let’s see why choosing PHP as your tech stack doesn’t mean disaster, as you were told.
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Source : JAXenter