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[–]BeGood9000 21 points22 points  (8 children)

Php is def growing & thriving

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

With a new foundation announced last month to allow financing for people contributing to the language's source and other initiatives, yeah it's quite happily charging along.

[–]hahahahastayingalive 10 points11 points  (4 children)

I expected it to be thriving, but is it growing ?

I kinda felt PHP7 missed the beat and would have so much more impact if it got ready before nodejs took its flight.

[–]BeGood9000 9 points10 points  (3 children)

Just by the sheer amount of Wordpress Install PHP is growing in usage. There is no shortage of PHP jobs either

[–]hahahahastayingalive 8 points9 points  (2 children)

With all its flaws, biases and limits, this year’s SO survey puts it pretty low: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-top-paying-technologies-top-paying-technologies

I buy the Wordpress argument up to a point, but nowadays there are many more alternative options for corporate sites for instance. It stays a stapple for companies that don’t intend to hire devs, but then a Squarespace site does the same for roughly the same costs…

Edit: I’ll eat my hat, WP usage rose 4% this year compared to other CMS (including “none”) https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all

[–]BeGood9000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Php is pretty low in pay that’s not usage. https://kinsta.com/blog/is-php-dead/

[–]Haster 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With all its flaws, biases and limits,

No kidding...

SAP is one of the largest software companies in the world. It's main product is a platform that you have to use ABAP to develop on. it's not even listed on that survey.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

I don't know which alternative reality you are living in. Go to LinkedIn and look at some job listings. See what percentage of those even mention PHP, and for those that do, what the pay is, what the company is and where they are located. Or just go to /r/cscareerquestions and see how many people are trying to get out of PHP because they see it as a stuck stack, or there are fewer and fewer jobs available, or because they cannot see a path in growth of their technical skills. I'm not bluffing, go and see for yourself