Re:PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter
by nostrademons on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @02:53PM
(#196405)
> the main reason we still PHP used so much, is that a lot of sites were build before 2005
That's really it - look at the dates on the sites he mentions. Wikipedia - 2002. Digg - 2004. Wordpress - 2003. FaceBook - 2004. Flickr - 2004.
The big hits of 2005 were YouTube (Python), Reddit (Python), and Twitter (Rails). Then there haven't really been many big hits since then - the ones I can think of with the most publicity are Pownce (Django), FriendFeed (Python), Justin.TV (Python), maybe Kongregate (Rails). So around 2005 there was a big shift away from PHP and towards Python/Ruby solutions.
There was a similar shift around 2000-2002 from Perl to PHP - the big hits then were LiveJournal (1998, Perl), Del.icio.us (2002, Perl), Blogger (1999, dunno), HotOrNot (2000, dunno), Craigslist (1996, Perl), EBay (1996, Perl), and IMDB (1998 or so, Perl).
That's really it - look at the dates on the sites he mentions. Wikipedia - 2002. Digg - 2004. Wordpress - 2003. FaceBook - 2004. Flickr - 2004.
The big hits of 2005 were YouTube (Python), Reddit (Python), and Twitter (Rails). Then there haven't really been many big hits since then - the ones I can think of with the most publicity are Pownce (Django), FriendFeed (Python), Justin.TV (Python), maybe Kongregate (Rails). So around 2005 there was a big shift away from PHP and towards Python/Ruby solutions.
There was a similar shift around 2000-2002 from Perl to PHP - the big hits then were LiveJournal (1998, Perl), Del.icio.us (2002, Perl), Blogger (1999, dunno), HotOrNot (2000, dunno), Craigslist (1996, Perl), EBay (1996, Perl), and IMDB (1998 or so, Perl).