PHP lifespan

[Paul Mooring]

I think most of the technologies you listed got sunk by changes in the tech eco-system as a whole.   FoxPro was killed by MS  but COBOL and dBase are still alive in there own niche's.  I think PHP will suffer the same fate, there's definitely better languages for writing full scale SaaS applications in (Ruby and Python seem like the big front-runners) but for a simple site you want to upload via FTP and forget I see no reason anyone would want to put much effort into "replacing" PHP.

On a related note, much of PHP's reputation isn't really deserved in my opinion.  There's a lot of awful code out there, but it's eco-system now has a pretty scale-worthy stack (laravel/symfony/ect, php-fpm and nginx) and like any language, it has some poor design decisions, but for the most part bad code is due to bad programmers rather than the language itself.

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Paul Mooring
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From: keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com<mailto:klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>>
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Date: Friday, April 5, 2013 12:25 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org<mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>>
Subject: PHP lifespan



Hi,  I do not want to start any flame wars.  I would like to open a discussion though.

I was thinking of what the life span of PHP might be.  I have lived through a number of them.

In the early 80's COBOL was still taught and was in use.  I know it is still around, however I do not think anyone would choose COBOL for a new project.

I also lived through the whole dBase, Clipper, FoxBase+, and Visual FoxPro cycle.  FoxPro was acquired by M$ 15 or 18 years ago, which started it's slow decline.  M$ finally killed it last year.

So I am wondering about PHP.  What might it's lifespan be?  What might be the next big thing... etc.

I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.

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Keith Smith
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