Yeah, GitHub might be a better indicator, but Google Trends have it declining. Though it had an uptick about a year ago. (Could it have to do anything with the release of PHP 8?)
Anyway, I did a Google Trends analysis just the other day to see if "popularity" of PHP was correlated with WordPress.
The short of it is that WordPress and PHP has followed the same trend over a long period, and during this period (2016-2020) it has been declining. 2021 has overall seen an upwards trend for PHP but it might just as well turn down over the next year.
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Yeah, GitHub might be a better indicator, but Google Trends have it declining. Though it had an uptick about a year ago. (Could it have to do anything with the release of PHP 8?)
Anyway, I did a Google Trends analysis just the other day to see if "popularity" of PHP was correlated with WordPress.
dev.to/andersbjorkland/is-PHP-sear...
The short of it is that WordPress and PHP has followed the same trend over a long period, and during this period (2016-2020) it has been declining. 2021 has overall seen an upwards trend for PHP but it might just as well turn down over the next year.