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Re:Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing ... by CiPHPerCoder on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:33PM (#16162866)
> but why should this effort be made for PHP?

See https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...

Anyone who wants a more secure Internet must necessarily be interested in improving the security of PHP.

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Re:Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing ... by code_duck on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:50PM (#16164487)
The figures on that page don’t mean that 83% of developers use PHP... Just that some things written in PHP are very popular. I’m sure that most of that figure is packages like WordPress.
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Re:Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing ... by CiPHPerCoder on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:28PM (#16164696)
Most of the Internet (5 out of 6 websites) is powered by PHP. This is true despite people saying "don't use PHP".

I didn't imply that 83% of developers use PHP. I'm sorry if anyone read it that way. I'm zeroed-in on the "what powers the Internet" statistic.

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