PHP lifespan

[Eric Cope]

I don't see PHP going away for a long time, unless the PHP core developers
fly off into left field and make some crazy decisions.
If I was going to learn new languages, I'd learn:
Ruby - because its becoming ubiquitous, but its too slow for full-scale
SaaS stuff, just ask Twitter :)
Python, node.js - for performance.

Just my two cents.

Eric


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Paul Mooring <paul at opscode.com> wrote:

>   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.
>
>   --
>  Paul Mooring
> Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate
>
>  www.opscode.com
>
>   From: keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
> Date: Friday, April 5, 2013 12:25 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <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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