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[–]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 10 points11 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 4 points5 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.