PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
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Re: PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
#2Personally, I'm not bothering to learn any new languages, stacks or APIs and will stick with what I know. AI will eventually (2-10 years) end up completely re-writing your whole program stack in machine code in whatever ISA without any bugs. The future of programming is a prompt engineer, write it in psudo code and english and output fully tested machine code.
Re: PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
#3I understand php is gong through some transformations right now, if it were up to me I would rename php to "Elephant" with file extension of E
Re: PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
#4PHP popularity is decreasing because there are better tools for the same niche today. The same happened for Perl in 00s. The same is happening for every web backend language, as JavaScript is becoming ubique due to it being the de facto and only choice for the web frontend.
Maybe PHP can be made better, but it would need some radical changes and then the question is that if it’s worth the effort and maybe to pick up some of the new tools instead.
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#5Professionally I work with python and node a lot, but everytime I need a backend for my personal projects PHP is my go to language.
Re: PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
#6Celebrate!
Re: PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
#7PHP popularity is decreasing because there are better tools for the same niche today. The same happened for Perl in 00s. The same is happening for every web backend language, as JavaScript is becoming ubique due to it being the de facto and only choice for the web frontend. Maybe PHP can be made better, but it would need some radical changes and then the question is that if it’s worth the effort and maybe to pick up…
I am curious what are the radical changes you are thinking about that PHP needs.
Re: PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
#8Work on transpilers to whatever is used instead and port existing libraries or support PHP frameworks in other technologies. This is to reuse existing experience and code.
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#9PHP has already been "rebranded". When people try to dunk on PHP for supposedly being awful, people are quick to point out that that's all from "pre-PHP 5.6" and that "PHP 7/8" are bringing all kinds of excellent features, functionalities, and refinements
The author links to the person thinking that HypeScript is a good name. He says:
"The name HypeScript sounds like a logical name for me, it pays its respect to the name PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) as well."
That would be like suggesting that IBM rebrand itself "BizCompany" to pay respect to its own name (?)
Re: PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?
#10Celebrate!
With any luck Java will go away as well.