PHP is more than still alive, it's getting better and better. I'm a fullstack developer and I have used many things for backend, like, ASP.NET, NodeJS, custom C made services, serverless like AWS, Firebase etc. PHP combined with frameworks such as Laravel and Symphony is breeze to work with and very efficient.
With PHP 8.1 we'll get such a set of new wonderfull features and performance and I really can't wait until it's release date in Novermber! PHP has a very strong development comunity and gets new features and improvements on a schedule.
So yes, PHP usage may gets declined, but that's normal for a 26 years old language that has had such a bad repuation in the past. But today PHP is a modern and fast language and it has a huge libraries/packages repository Packagist and a great ecosystem with frameworks such as Laravel and Symphony.
I'm not surpriced any more by developers asking such things like "Do developers still use PHP?" because there are the hype kids that they learn something and how to use it and then they like to full around people that don't follow their hyped choices. Yes, there are still many PHP developers as there are still many Visual Basic developers as there are still many Fortran developers and noone knows how a language will evolve and end up; take for example Python; Python was just a niche language used in scripts and in some applications (like Blender 3D); then AI researchers and then Google picked it up to build AI tools and libraries like Tensorflow and then the language got so big hyped that it became a top language.
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PHP is more than still alive, it's getting better and better. I'm a fullstack developer and I have used many things for backend, like, ASP.NET, NodeJS, custom C made services, serverless like AWS, Firebase etc. PHP combined with frameworks such as Laravel and Symphony is breeze to work with and very efficient.
With PHP 8.1 we'll get such a set of new wonderfull features and performance and I really can't wait until it's release date in Novermber! PHP has a very strong development comunity and gets new features and improvements on a schedule.
So yes, PHP usage may gets declined, but that's normal for a 26 years old language that has had such a bad repuation in the past. But today PHP is a modern and fast language and it has a huge libraries/packages repository Packagist and a great ecosystem with frameworks such as Laravel and Symphony.
I'm not surpriced any more by developers asking such things like "Do developers still use PHP?" because there are the hype kids that they learn something and how to use it and then they like to full around people that don't follow their hyped choices. Yes, there are still many PHP developers as there are still many Visual Basic developers as there are still many Fortran developers and noone knows how a language will evolve and end up; take for example Python; Python was just a niche language used in scripts and in some applications (like Blender 3D); then AI researchers and then Google picked it up to build AI tools and libraries like Tensorflow and then the language got so big hyped that it became a top language.