PHP is dead

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Who else identifies with this? I basically made my first relevant $ on PHP and just wordpress has paid more bills than anything else over the years for me!

1995: PHP is dead, learn ColdFusion
2003: PHP is dead, learn Django
2004: PHP is dead, learn Ruby on Rails
2010: PHP is dead, learn Flask
2011: PHP is dead, learn AngularJS
2016: PHP is dead, learn Next.js
2022: PHP is dead, learn Go
2025: Okay this is weird...

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PHP is a wonderful language. Although I stopped using it more than five years ago, I still think it's a great and easily accessible language for web development.

My personal favorite stack is Python (Django or FastAPI) with ReactJS/Vue frontend.
 
Diplomat said:
PHP is a wonderful language. Although I stopped using it more than five years ago, I still think it's a great and easily accessible language for web development.

My personal favorite stack is Python (Django or FastAPI) with ReactJS/Vue frontend.
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Doing some React, Angular and Vue lately as well. No idea how it performs SEO. Have you done SEO on the modern javascript front ends?
 
bartosimpsonio said:
Doing some React, Angular and Vue lately as well. No idea how it performs SEO. Have you done SEO on the modern javascript front ends?
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I am testing it right now as well with a new website. I haven't used JS exclusively, so I'm not sure yet, but it should work just fine. There are many sites built on Next.js/Nuxt, so I assume it should be fine. But you can always prerender everything, but then you can't use dynamic actions.

I have used React for ~5+ years, but I am slowly transitioning to Vue as I appreciate its clean code a bit more.
 
bartosimpsonio said:
Who else identifies with this? I basically made my first relevant $ on PHP and just wordpress has paid more bills than anything else over the years for me!

1995: PHP is dead, learn ColdFusion
2003: PHP is dead, learn Django
2004: PHP is dead, learn Ruby on Rails
2010: PHP is dead, learn Flask
2011: PHP is dead, learn AngularJS
2016: PHP is dead, learn Next.js
2022: PHP is dead, learn Go
2025: Okay this is weird...

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"PHP won’t die as far as I know, most hosting services and the entire WordPress platform run on PHP.
 
PHP is where you start for your web technologies! Its the language of choice for cpanel users, as most free cms and ecommerce software avaiable in that are all php.

Lots of legacy code is in php, so anyone that knows how to do 2 things, thats code in php, and also code in c# or python, could make some money from people who want to convert their site.
 
Seriously, major content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, which itself powers over 40% of all websites, are built using PHP. Other popular CMS platforms like Drupal and Joomla also rely on PHP.
 
bartosimpsonio said:
Who else identifies with this? I basically made my first relevant $ on PHP and just wordpress has paid more bills than anything else over the years for me!

1995: PHP is dead, learn ColdFusion
2003: PHP is dead, learn Django
2004: PHP is dead, learn Ruby on Rails
2010: PHP is dead, learn Flask
2011: PHP is dead, learn AngularJS
2016: PHP is dead, learn Next.js
2022: PHP is dead, learn Go
2025: Okay this is weird...

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Wait..

2025-2026: PHP is dead, node.js will replace it.

j/k
 
Never worked with PHP but I'm familiar with the hype of js frameworks, most are bloated junk and it always comes back to server side rendering for 90% of cases which is mostly what PHP does. Svelte/sveltekit is worth exploring though, really good ergonomics and well made server to client abstractions (e.g. remote fns), actually does make your life easier compared to stuff like next.
 
PHP is great and most of the internet using it :) I don't think it will die unless the internet will die. Yeah it's not the best stack for startups or for modern web apps (even that it's possible) but it's still kicking.
 
If someone says something is dead or will die I just take it as they want to die. Miserable.

OR maybe they call HTML and CSS programming languages and just can’t quite grasp PHP. It’s rocket science.

I like PHP fight me.
 
So many websites running with php. I am not a php developer but, have only a bit experience in php but i think php will never die out :)
 
For years, everyone has been saying that PHP is going to die, but no one can give it up. :rolleyes:
 
Php is good but if you looking for performance, security, powerful language

Then c# with Asp core is your best choice.
 
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