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Re:So you're using a weird language by charrondev on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:08PM (#33103497)
How did you miss PHP in that list of languages? It’s the most popular web development language. It has 2 very popular web frameworks (Laravel and Symfony, although Laravel seems to have the bigger developer community) and the language has been evolving in a pretty good direction.
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Re:So you're using a weird language by smt88 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:52PM (#33103790)
PHP is an insignificant, declining language outside of WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Those three combined are ~90% of all sites running PHP[1].

I'd wager that most of the remaining PHP sites are wikis and legacy applications that are too painful to port.

1. https://kinsta.com/php-market-share/

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Re:So you're using a weird language by gdetassigny on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:53AM (#33104843)
Did you actually read the article you posted? It states that 79% of sites are using PHP. WordPress is 40%, Joomla 2%, Drupal 1%. So no, they don't combine to ~90% of PHP sites, far from it!

The article even concludes with: "PHP is far from dead, no matter what any disgruntled developer may tell you. After all, 79.2% of all websites in the world can’t all be wrong, and most importantly, PHP’s market share has remained relatively steady throughout the last five years (oscillating between 78–80%). Few programming languages command that type of staying power."

PHP powers a lot of legacy code bases, yes. But there are also a lot of job opportunities in Laravel and Symfony which are both very good frameworks.

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Re:So you're using a weird language by theonething on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:32AM (#33104401)
> Those three combined are ~90% of all sites running PHP[1].

How are you getting that number? From the link you referenced, the percentages are Wordpress: 40%, Joomla: 2.6%, Drupal: 1.7%

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Re:So you're using a weird language by andrewstuart on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:18PM (#33103560)
PHP is in decline.

It's getting ever harder to find good PHP developers.

PHP will be around forever, but it's getting less popular.

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Re:So you're using a weird language by Mikeb85 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:22AM (#33104355)
The fact that a lot of WordPress websites exist in the wild doesn't make it the most popular web dev language...
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