people actually upvote and answer to this question? Who would knows? It's 20 years.
20 years ago php was hot tech, php!!!
20 years ago php was hot tech, php!!!
PHP is just too easy to hate, because of its massive popularity.
Why not?
I thought programming languages was just a tool, a means to an end. If that is the case, which I believe it is, it shouldn't really matter in which way it is created.
I would pick a tool that's grown out of actual needs over some guy thinking in the basement for 20 years any day of the week. Because the first one will solve problems and the second most likely won't.
Yes PHP is very popular, so is Tiktok, if anything it's an indication of stupidity.
Sure storing state must be done in some other kind of tech like redis or similar, but what the hell it is still kind of awesome and scales really easily.
Also, when there is little traffic it basically does not consume any memory which makes it possible to run a lot of sites on the same machine. This is better for the environment and the wallet.
The funniest thing of all is that many languages are imitating php with serverless.
just shut up
look this is really lame, the only thing I said in my original comment was that the hot language 20 ago, which happened to be PHP, is no longer hot today.
You could argue that PHP is a good language, good luck with that I guess.
However the point remains is that no one think PHP is a language of the future that they should invest their time into. Heck even the fad *after* PHP, Ruby, which people generally have positive view of, is dying.