I think we need to stop having this discussion altogether.
I think there's a collective trauma among PHP developers that dates back to 15 years ago when PHP was a lot more quirky (PHP 4 or early PHP 5 days) and got a lot of heat from some developers. Nowadays there is no reason to even consider if it might be dying.
Sure Go, Rust and Kotlin are great new languages, but it doesn't mean that Python, Ruby or PHP have suddenly become obsolete, and I don't see nearly as many posts asking if Python is dead or if Ruby is dead.
Because Python and Ruby aren't pieces of shit, that's why. The only thing that changed in PHP is that the developers became less bad and the tools improved but the language stayed the same.
Dude, I still see most SQL/XSS injection prone websites without password hashing been written in PHP. Just because there are some good sites in PHP doesn't mean most beginners create awfully insecure websites, which you won't find in any other language at all, because beginners in other languages use proper frameworks like Flask, Django, SQLAlchemy. Even go which is kind of frameworkless doesn't suffer from the same level of data leaking websites beginners create in PHP
I know you can't hold PHP accountable for WordPress but I've definitely spent too many hours worrying about WordPress security and fighting off hackers to not feel a little resent.
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I think we need to stop having this discussion altogether.
I think there's a collective trauma among PHP developers that dates back to 15 years ago when PHP was a lot more quirky (PHP 4 or early PHP 5 days) and got a lot of heat from some developers. Nowadays there is no reason to even consider if it might be dying.
Sure Go, Rust and Kotlin are great new languages, but it doesn't mean that Python, Ruby or PHP have suddenly become obsolete, and I don't see nearly as many posts asking if Python is dead or if Ruby is dead.
Because Python and Ruby aren't pieces of shit, that's why. The only thing that changed in PHP is that the developers became less bad and the tools improved but the language stayed the same.
Dude, I still see most SQL/XSS injection prone websites without password hashing been written in PHP. Just because there are some good sites in PHP doesn't mean most beginners create awfully insecure websites, which you won't find in any other language at all, because beginners in other languages use proper frameworks like Flask, Django, SQLAlchemy. Even go which is kind of frameworkless doesn't suffer from the same level of data leaking websites beginners create in PHP
I know you can't hold PHP accountable for WordPress but I've definitely spent too many hours worrying about WordPress security and fighting off hackers to not feel a little resent.