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Discussion on: Month #1: Building a Startup From Scratch

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big-webdev

Interesting. But php is not dead at all. With php8.1 its more modern than ever and is still used on nearly 80% of the web. And yeah. It triggers me a bit๐Ÿ˜„

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Digital Grey Hat

Thank you, many people have already told me that. It is good to know PHP is not dead! Still, I don't intend to do it in PHP because this year is a new chapter in my life. In addition, I want to start from scratch, since others don't have the advantage of having already learned a programming language.

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zakwillis

Have zero interest in php BUT you do so good luck to you.

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CuriousDev

Maybe I cannot write much about PHP, but I also think that it is not only still used a lot, but also people just describe it like something useless. It is possible, that if you are about to learn something for your career, it is not the best choice, but it surely is nothing you should regret.

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Amine Ous

That's right . Php is not dead and there is lot of frameworks and the best I like is Laravel

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Valeria

I don't think that the 80% argument is relevant given that the majority of it is powered by WordPress.
With that said I suggest to rephrase PHP is dead with I feel that other language would be a better fit for me/project.
Unfortunately some developers are often too attached to a particular tool or methodology and take a personal offence when said tool is criticized.

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Abel Lifaefi Mbula

Completly agree with you. The sentence PHP is dead exists more than 5 yrs ago today, but still WP is eating the web.