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Discussion on: Do developers still use PHP?

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Giulia Malaroda

I'm a front-end web dev in a digital agency and we were thinking to switch to Javascript both for the front and the back end. Then taught about it and decided to keep PHP for the backend and in case use Javascript (react, angular, vue) only for the frontend. So yes, PHP is still a big player for us ☺️

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Octavian Nita

Just curious -- what made you guys stick with PHP on the backend?

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Marc Guinea

There are several factors:

  • Lot of jobs requires PHP
  • Has a great community and ecosystem
  • Even with its lacks... it works!
  • Comfort zone
  • Language is not everything, in my case, I prefer paying attention to best practices / architectural patterns, devops... and improve it than learning a new language.

Just my point of view ;)