Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
by mgkimsal on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:43AM
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Why is "college kid skills" relevant for anything? Do you make tech and business decisions based on what your incoming jr people want to do?
Many people in my circles use PHP for ... lots of stuff. I just got back from a PHP conference, and saw hundreds of people there are using it.
"Python seems to have won the backend game" - I'm really curious where you get that impression from. I can't imagine it's relating to publicly available web servers. That's not a total view of everything, of course, but... absent other numbers/studies/reports, it's really hard to draw any conclusions that aren't just based on personal experience.
Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
by nrdvana on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:37AM
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WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Joomla, OpenCart and lots of other open source community CMS and online web-store type things are built on it. Sadly it will never die because it has Facebook pouring money into it.
Who uses php these days?
I haven't heard any one start a new php project in years. Ruby seems to have gone the same way.
Python seems to have won the backend game, which actually makes sense as Python today is bloated like how Perl was once. And these days it feels like Perl with tab indentation. No wonder it fanatic following these days.
Frontend game is now owned by Node, ReactJS, JS etc.
Who uses php to do anything? In fact I don't know of a single college kid I've hired who has even looked at php let alone used it.