> most people wouldn’t choose PHP for a new project
Is this really true?
I used to be a full-time PHP developer but I personally don't touch that language anymore. But it's still very popular around the world, I've seen multiple projects start this year use PHP, because that's the language the founders/most developers in the company are familiar with. Probably depends a lot on where in the world you're located.
Last Stack Overflow survey had ~20% of the people answering the survey saying that they still use PHP in some capacity.
The beauty of PHP is that it is stateless and the end of the run, everything is freed. It is difficult to have memory leaks.
Personally, I like using Typescript/Javascript on both front end and backend, but I don’t look down at PHP backends at all. And it’s come a long way as a language.
I’ve been a fan of rolling your own stdlib as the semantics there are old and weird, but vscode tells you so who cares anymore.
Is this really true?
I used to be a full-time PHP developer but I personally don't touch that language anymore. But it's still very popular around the world, I've seen multiple projects start this year use PHP, because that's the language the founders/most developers in the company are familiar with. Probably depends a lot on where in the world you're located.
Last Stack Overflow survey had ~20% of the people answering the survey saying that they still use PHP in some capacity.