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Re:Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing ... by astrodust on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:34PM (#16165002)
This is the fallacy. Perl never stopped growing in popularity, it's just that it was suddenly eclipsed by other languages that came out of nowhere and grew well beyond what it ever achieved.

You're also falling victim to this same fallacy. Something did eclipse PHP.

JavaScript.

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Re:Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing ... by spdionis on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:44AM (#16168795)
On web backend? No, not really.

Edit: Thank God!

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Re:Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing ... by astrodust on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:30PM (#16173085)
The back-end is getting thinner, the front-end is where all the business logic happens these days. So yeah, you might have a PHP back-end, but you also have a mountain of view logic in JavaScript (TypeScript, CoffeeScript, etc.) that utterly buries it.

There's also Node.js which is catching on really fast because it fits that role of "JSON over REST/GraphQL provider" really well.

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