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by Gentil 1277 days ago
People who are ranting about PHP should know that it still powers a significant portion of the internet. The nodejs, deno and bun are an evolving space. If you want to take that train, that is definitely a good idea as it is HOT and popular now. But not everyone wants to you know.

PHP is one of those "boring technologies". Mature, slow paced and reliable tech. It has fixed a lot of the real issues which made it a meme language. If you are writing JS in the front, PHP is very similar and easy to pick up.

For people who are looking for a more mature and slow moving area, they could just fall back to PHP. Or try Laravel which adds some hotness to it.
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phplovesong 1277 days ago
PHP is still used widely on the web. But from all of PHP out there, its like 98% wordpress.
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gjsman-1000 1277 days ago
According to metric information at (https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php), about 80% of the known public internet where we know the back-end language uses PHP. About 25% of the internet is WordPress. So... ~55% of the internet is PHP non-WordPress. These aren't the best numbers but try to disprove them.
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qsort 1276 days ago
The where we know the backend language qualifier is doing a lot of work there. According to those statistics Scala is ahead of Javascript, Python is at 1% and behind both.

I'm not sure I have a better idea on how to measure that, but the numbers don't really add up...

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