kenyanewsnetwork.com— "A friend recently told me that PHP is on its way out, Ruby on Rails is where it's at. I scoffed. I chuckled. Then I gave it some thought. Could PHP have had its day?"
Aug 4, 2006View in Crawl 4
Some good points. As a programming language PHP's design is more or less non-existant. But that doesn't make it less useful, just less enjoyable to use. There's so much existing PHP code and so many PHP programmers that even if it is on the decline, it would take a long time for it to disappear completely. Dead? Not a chance. Dying, I highly doubt it. Slowly getting older and showing it's years? Could be.
agree with nofxjunkee. over the long run, upward trends don't stay constant for many things. php's slippage was inevitable. that doesn't necessarily mean it will fall out of favor and disappear completely, though. i think the author makes a critical mistake by associating a programming language's viability, or its 'aliveness', with being the hottest thing on the web. that type of thinking can generate quite a few bad conclusions. php is at a cross-road. it is showing signs of age and is just screaming to be remodeled. php 5 was supposed to start this remodelling process, thus the hype surrounding the OOP (class) improvements. i think php will be used to develop web-apps for quite some time, but assume a lesser role as it is absorbed into a support role for ajax-based applications.
thujoneAug 4, 2006
Can you kill God?
illegalchuckAug 4, 2006Submitter
Apparently, yes.
nofxjunkeeAug 6, 2006
Some good points. As a programming language PHP's design is more or less non-existant. But that doesn't make it less useful, just less enjoyable to use. There's so much existing PHP code and so many PHP programmers that even if it is on the decline, it would take a long time for it to disappear completely. Dead? Not a chance. Dying, I highly doubt it. Slowly getting older and showing it's years? Could be.
nickadeemus2002Aug 21, 2006
agree with nofxjunkee. over the long run, upward trends don't stay constant for many things. php's slippage was inevitable. that doesn't necessarily mean it will fall out of favor and disappear completely, though. i think the author makes a critical mistake by associating a programming language's viability, or its 'aliveness', with being the hottest thing on the web. that type of thinking can generate quite a few bad conclusions. php is at a cross-road. it is showing signs of age and is just screaming to be remodeled. php 5 was supposed to start this remodelling process, thus the hype surrounding the OOP (class) improvements. i think php will be used to develop web-apps for quite some time, but assume a lesser role as it is absorbed into a support role for ajax-based applications.
scottdeaganFeb 12, 2010
Update: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/d31HVvu" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/d31HVvu</a> (a PHP compiler being developed by Facebook).