Is PHP Dead?
Technology is at the forefront of business…especially so in recent years. But we don’t really hear much about PHP in the mainstream media.
Angular, React, Node, js, and Python are all the rage nowadays- even computer science degrees teach the next generation of techs about Java and C languages. Meanwhile, PHP is left on the sidelines.
But is it officially dead? Are you getting tunnel vision over the latest trends in tech?
People have been calling for the death of PHP for some time now, but it still exists almost everywhere.
When anyone mentions PHP, it often comes with an air of derision towards the programming language. According to a report by W3Techs, PHP runs through 79% of the web. Despite its bad reputation in the 90s/00s for port security, PHP has clung to the title of most commonly used server language.
Most of this success is likely due to its affiliation with WordPress, the wildly popular CMS launched back in 2003 – just as the rise of the blogger began. It even managed to bear out Google’s Blogger as the primary non-technical market’s CMS of choice.
A shifting ecosystem
