What's keeping PHP alive is that it powers 80% of the websites on the internet. It is an absolute giant. Facebook, Yahoo and even P***hub is built with PHP. Regardless of what anyone says or think, especially the new kids in love with JS, PHP is NOT going anywhere.
PS, I'm also a MERN stack developer but thinking about languages dying or how A is better than B are completely immature ways to think as a developer. You have a problem, you look for the right tool to solve it with, and that's that.
Having touched on MERN I know how powerful it is, and I think that's something some devs forget - we can get quite cult-ish with our languages. We need to change that 😁
Yes I agree. You have a problem so you find the right tool for solution.
But developers have mostly some own favorite programming language, mostly it is same which learned as first (JS, PHP, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, etc..) and also depends on personal tastes.
And doesn't want to learn something other when they have some own solution in their language.
Developers when talking about what language is "the best" are in real talking "I'm using this.." because for them it is the best solution because they don't have some large overview what is also possible with other languages and what are the pros or cons its solutions.. :)
Myth? Okay fam. Even Whitehouse's new website is built with WordPress.
The articles below ain't taking countless Laravel, other frameworks and core PHP into consideration. These are facts and not myths.
I've been coding for over 20 years now! (WOAH, do I feel old)
I've touched just about every resource imaginable under the Sun (too bad they were bought out by Oracle)
Facebook stopped using PHP as their primary language years ago. They built their own in-house language, HACK (used by be compatible with PHP, but not any longer)
I've been coding for over 20 years now! (WOAH, do I feel old)
I've touched just about every resource imaginable under the Sun (too bad they were bought out by Oracle)
Not quite. HHVM was an entirely separate implementation that supported PHP, but then they also forked the language to create HACK, and then dropped PHP language compatibility. HHVM and HACK is not PHP compatible at this point in time, but there was a point in time when there was compatibility.
Wordpress is the only thing keeping PHP alive.
Agreed. Can't wait until there's a CMS equivalent in features to Wordpress but built on Javascript
I believe there's a few headless WP-esque JS solutions. I know Directus has a Vue-based admin system - still powered by PHP on the back, though!
Checkout ghost.org/
This is a cms based on js
I think it's Laravel that keeps PHP alive. WordPress projects are live for a long time and not updating fast and dead to the developers.
And Symfony.
What makes you think that?
Curious to know!
Wordpress destroy opinion about php
What's keeping PHP alive is that it powers 80% of the websites on the internet. It is an absolute giant. Facebook, Yahoo and even P***hub is built with PHP. Regardless of what anyone says or think, especially the new kids in love with JS, PHP is NOT going anywhere.
PS, I'm also a MERN stack developer but thinking about languages dying or how A is better than B are completely immature ways to think as a developer. You have a problem, you look for the right tool to solve it with, and that's that.
I totally agree.
Having touched on MERN I know how powerful it is, and I think that's something some devs forget - we can get quite cult-ish with our languages. We need to change that 😁
you definitely touched MERN, but you definitely didn't touch PHP and its ecosystem well enough...
Yes I agree. You have a problem so you find the right tool for solution.
But developers have mostly some own favorite programming language, mostly it is same which learned as first (JS, PHP, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, etc..) and also depends on personal tastes.
And doesn't want to learn something other when they have some own solution in their language.
Developers when talking about what language is "the best" are in real talking "I'm using this.." because for them it is the best solution because they don't have some large overview what is also possible with other languages and what are the pros or cons its solutions.. :)
Not anymore.... this are old myths
Myth? Okay fam. Even Whitehouse's new website is built with WordPress.
The articles below ain't taking countless Laravel, other frameworks and core PHP into consideration. These are facts and not myths.
kinsta.com/wordpress-market-share/
10up.com/blog/2021/10up-helps-laun...
Facebook stopped using PHP as their primary language years ago. They built their own in-house language, HACK (used by be compatible with PHP, but not any longer)
Not quite. HHVM was an entirely separate implementation that supported PHP, but then they also forked the language to create HACK, and then dropped PHP language compatibility. HHVM and HACK is not PHP compatible at this point in time, but there was a point in time when there was compatibility.
You're absolutely a developer outside the PHP ecosystem... i suggest you read more about the ecosystem of PHP...
go read some resources first...