alt Hacker NewsPHP is ONLY popular because of mainly wordpress. Usage outside the big CMS are minimal at best, in 2026. I dont see much greenfield / PHP jobs that are not legacy software these days.
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nijave • today at 3:30 PM
I'm not sure that's true. It seems very popular in OSS in general but not much enterprise/commercial uptake.
I guess node has taken some market share it seems like
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There's very little green-field PHP being written, but there's an awful lot of the Internet that was written over the last 30 years, and there's also a lot of very popular turn-key software (eg. WordPress, MediaWiki, phpBB) that gets redeployed on new sites by people who just want something user-friendly that works.