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Discussion on: Do Developers Still Use PHP (and why that’s the wrong question to ask)

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SyntaxSeed (Sherri W)

I've been around the web dev block for almost 2 decades now. Used PHP for almost that long.

I've seen variations on the "Is PHP Dead?" articles so many times it's not even noteworthy anymore. I've also seen nearly as many that rip PHP apart based on very outdated facts about the language.

It's new to see this article - which is ALSO a slam at PHP disguised as defense.

The proliferation of PHP means that it’s likely to persist for a while. After all, there are people who still code in “outdated” programming languages like COBOL in order to work on older digital infrastructure.

I see what you did there.👀

Oh look another article predicting that PHP is on its way out. Sorry to upset the haters, but PHP is faster & more full-featured than ever. It's jumped into the serverless space & laying the groundwork for multithreading. PHP is the best choice for many serverside projects & it's going to keep improving & building the web no matter how many of these articles get written.

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