5 Reasons Why the Web Platform War is Over: PHP Won with 75% says Google
During Google I/O 2013 event a Google manager said PHP runs on 75% of the Web sites. So they decided to finally support PHP as in their AppEngine hosting service.
Read this article to understand why this puts an end to years of false claims that PHP was losing market, as well what it means to Web developers using PHP or other languages.
.. 4. Programming Does Not Have to Be Beautiful
.. 5. PHP Detractors Have the Wrong Focus
PHP is not perfect but that does not matter. Actually those are not my words. Those are from Jeff Atwood of StackOverflow fame. Despite he knows that, it is not unusual to see him preaching against PHP. Well if it does not matter, why bother spending time and effort preaching against PHP?
Jeff is not alone. Haters will gonna hate, will do it in public spaces a lot, sometimes in disguised ways.
.. PHP May Not Be Dominant Forever
However, this may not be enough to make people exchange PHP for JavaScript. I think it is more likely that somebody develops asynchronous programming support in PHP.
Anyway, PHP is successful because the Web is popular, just like Windows is successful while the desktop computers are popular.
As more people move from the desktop computers to mobile devices, Windows may lose relevance. Likewise if people move from the Web to some other platform, PHP may no longer be as relevant as it is today.