<div dir="ltr">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.<div style>If I was going to learn new languages, I'd learn:</div><div style>
Ruby - because its becoming ubiquitous, but its too slow for full-scale SaaS stuff, just ask Twitter :)</div><div style>Python, node.js - for performance. </div><div style><br></div><div style>Just my two cents.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>Eric</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Paul Mooring <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@opscode.com" target="_blank">paul@opscode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>keith smith <<a href="mailto:klsmith2020@yahoo.com" target="_blank">klsmith2020@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, April 5, 2013 12:25 PM<br>
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Hi, I do not want to start any flame wars. I would like to open a discussion though.<br>
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I was thinking of what the life span of PHP might be. I have lived through a number of them.<br>
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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.
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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.<br>
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So I am wondering about PHP. What might it's lifespan be? What might be the next big thing... etc.<br>
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I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.<br>
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