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Re:PHP is worth learning and using by rp1 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:03AM (#29266953)
I’m curious what metric you’re using to determine that a majority of the web is running on PHP.
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Re:PHP is worth learning and using by paledot on Sunday November 21, 2021 @05:18PM (#29300322)
What alternative language do you propose? Not that asking for a source is unreasonable, but you seem to doubt that PHP has majority market share. Do you suppose that Node is more popular? Rails? Go? Flask?
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Re:PHP is worth learning and using by motogpjimbo on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:39AM (#29267403)
Surveys generally indicate that of sites where it is possible to determine the language, somewhere between 70% and 80% of them are running PHP. Of course, that figure will include a lot of WordPress sites.
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Re:PHP is worth learning and using by rp1 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:44AM (#29267467)
What percentage of websites is it possible to determine the language? My guess is not many. Your metric self-selects for recognizing PHP sites because of Wordpress.
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