The Future of PHP
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The Future of PHP
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Re: The Future of PHP
#2I’ll save you the bother of reading 966 words:
No, it’s not.
To me, it’s never been a better time for PHP.
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#3For me PHP is exactly like IE6, it completly shaped web programming as we know it, and will have a true resilience, before dying, inevitably (disclamer: I used PHP from 2000 to 2009 , then switched to rails on a daily bases).
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#4No.
As much as everybody likes to hate on PHP, it powers a lot of services that are used all around the world - and a lot of internal systems.
With 7.3 it seems as though PHP has finally got to a point where it knows who it is and where it's going - don't get me wrong, it's paid my wage for the last 18 years - but it's also made it very easy to shoot myself in the foot.
With frameworks like Laravel and Symfony about now, I can only see it getting stronger.
(Although I'm moving to more Elixir and Phoenix, I still pick PHP for simple projects, or those that I can't use Elixir on - and obviously maintaining and upgrading existing things)
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#5For me PHP is exactly like IE6, it completly shaped web programming as we know it, and will have a true resilience, before dying, inevitably (disclamer: I used PHP from 2000 to 2009 , then switched to rails on a daily bases).
You may want to take a look at Laravel.
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#6It’s exhausting seeing these kinds of discussions. The only people who think PHP is dying is those who don’t use it. Besides the languages quirks, it’s incredibly productive and has a huge community of well engineered libraries for almost all mundane tasks. Theres great testing tools and general quality tool alike PHPStan. There’s an enormous pool of talent to hire from.
I code mostly in node nowadays, not through choice but due to the language snobbery I encountered during the last few years. It’s a shame. I find myself far more productive in the synchronous model than trying to bend my mind backwards with closures and async issues in the node world.
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#7I’ll save you the bother of reading 966 words: No, it’s not. To me, it’s never been a better time for PHP.
Recently I was asked to help out with a PHP project for work, I made the switch to rails almost a decade ago & haven’t looked back since so I was excited to see how PHP felt.
I was fairly impressed with how easy it was to jump back to PHP, the documentation is full of examples, there is composer for package management and it has a strong community who meets up regularly.
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#8It's like Quora.com:
- Is PHP dying in 2019? (25 Oct 2018) - Is PHP dying in 2018? (27 Apr 2018) - Will PHP die out in 2017? (24 Mar 2017) - When will PHP finally die? (13 Feb 2017)
I asked people at Metaculus (a forecasting website) "When will PHP die?". The current consensus out of 43 predictions seems to be 50% chance before Jan 2037, 75% before Feb 2051. Seems like a reasonable prediction.
If you are interested in making your own predictions: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/1691/when-will-php-die/
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#9According to this interesting Google Trends chart
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=python,p...
Python is on a quite strong climb, with PHP falling significantly over the years. But, it also says Javascript is on the same trajectory so that shows the real value of the data.
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#10If effing C and COBOL are still around and Javascript somehow turned popular as a general purpose application language then PHP isn't going anywhere.