In case you have not heard. Php is dead.
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It's been a meme for a number of years now that PHP is dead, no-one's using it, and that you should move to whatever framework is popular this month (this week?) in primarily Node.
The fact that Node isn't currently powering either 40+% of the web in the form of WordPress or powering some of the most popular websites in the world (hi Wikipedia, yes, that's almost entirely PHP based) should be a clue that PHP is in fact not dead.
If you spend time where techbros are, you will be told that all the mature stable languages are DEAD and it's time to move on to the new hotness (which will be Rust, Zig or Node depending on which flavour of ecosystem you're in) and not languages that people actually want to use because they're stable, mature and proven, and have excellent libraries and tools for a task at hand.
I've been hearing that PHP is dead for the last decade, but that hasn't stopped me building multiple new sites this year in it.
The fact that Node isn't currently powering either 40+% of the web in the form of WordPress or powering some of the most popular websites in the world (hi Wikipedia, yes, that's almost entirely PHP based) should be a clue that PHP is in fact not dead.
If you spend time where techbros are, you will be told that all the mature stable languages are DEAD and it's time to move on to the new hotness (which will be Rust, Zig or Node depending on which flavour of ecosystem you're in) and not languages that people actually want to use because they're stable, mature and proven, and have excellent libraries and tools for a task at hand.
I've been hearing that PHP is dead for the last decade, but that hasn't stopped me building multiple new sites this year in it.
fdk
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Having Google'd "PHP is dead", I very much now get the joke lol
That's a fantastic meme!
That's a fantastic meme!
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