One sad reason (IMO) new developers are not using PHP is because they are getting railroaded into doing JS for everything by all the silly bootcamps out there. Apparently PHP is neither cool nor hot, so obviously it's not worth learning. :sigh:
Most of those new devs have no idea how the underlying language actually works, let alone that there are other languages that are better for doing certain things.
I would love to have a bootcamp add PHP to its course to teach actual OO principles but they're more focused on spewing out garbage "full stack" devs who don't even know SQL, but expect 6 figure salaries immediately after graduating.
I personally run a PHP meetup in my area and even though the community has shrunk a bit over the last decade, the language itself has made huge progress recently, and I expect it to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Don't listen to the haters. Most of them either had to deal with a badly developed legacy application, or are too lazy to learn proper OOP, or the last time they actually looked at PHP was 20+ years ago. Of course, that leads me to one of the few bad things about PHP - it's incredibly easy to do things badly, and there are way too many "tutorial" articles or comments on the internet that lead developers down the wrong path for accomplishing things.
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One sad reason (IMO) new developers are not using PHP is because they are getting railroaded into doing JS for everything by all the silly bootcamps out there. Apparently PHP is neither cool nor hot, so obviously it's not worth learning. :sigh:
Most of those new devs have no idea how the underlying language actually works, let alone that there are other languages that are better for doing certain things.
I would love to have a bootcamp add PHP to its course to teach actual OO principles but they're more focused on spewing out garbage "full stack" devs who don't even know SQL, but expect 6 figure salaries immediately after graduating.
I personally run a PHP meetup in my area and even though the community has shrunk a bit over the last decade, the language itself has made huge progress recently, and I expect it to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Don't listen to the haters. Most of them either had to deal with a badly developed legacy application, or are too lazy to learn proper OOP, or the last time they actually looked at PHP was 20+ years ago. Of course, that leads me to one of the few bad things about PHP - it's incredibly easy to do things badly, and there are way too many "tutorial" articles or comments on the internet that lead developers down the wrong path for accomplishing things.