The decline and fall of PHP will be something of a minor apocalypse for the Web. Last I heard, north of 20% of websites run Wordpress, which is built on standard PHP (unlike say Facebook which has done fancy foundational re-engineering)
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Nothing in particular. Just a long, slow aging of a language.
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PHP is a sourcing solution and at that a pretty good one (the pool of talent is infinite of you’re not that picky).
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PHP is both in decline and growing better than ever, as the need to maintain Too Big To Fail legacy apps have resulted in major performance and language improvements in the 7.0 branch, and the vendor ecosystem is getting stronger. Disclosure: I am a PHP developer, not by choice.
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Just about any software toolkit can be made acceptable if you're willing to throw enough engineer-hours in the meat grinder.
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but facebook's changes will prolly be integrated into further versions of php anyhow.






