• dudinax@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    PHP is a sturdy club. You aren’t going to take over the world with it but you can reliably put a dent in something.

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      1 year ago

      but like, wasn’t facebook written in php and didn’t it kind of take over, about as much as any programming whatzit ever has? (not saying that was a good thing, but yeah…)

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        1 year ago

        Facebook has used Hack for a long time now, which is very different from PHP these days. It’s entirely statically typed with a bunch of advanced features that PHP doesn’t have.

        Yahoo used a lot of PHP too, back when they were still very popular.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, PHP is used on at least ~35% of sites (based on the number of sites that run WordPress), so PHP itself has already taken over the world :)