Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.
The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.
Yes! Finally the world can maybe move on from PHP!
PHP 7 or 8 + Laravel is fine
PHP 8 is actually really good. Think last time I was angry at PHP was pre 7.4 PHP
Have they stopped using every naming convention there is (including some from other planets) in their function names?
ConventionForReal_real_v2()
Yes it has gotten much better after 8.0
Of course PHP still has some baggage but 7.x was such a breath of fresh air that it gave me hope. 8.x made me love PHP
I don’t see why I should care. In 2001, your choices for backend webdev were basically PHP, Perl, Python, or Java. Now we have a dozen languages competing for the top spot. Elixir is becoming a personal favorite, but I don’t see why I should bother with PHP if I don’t already have a legacy platform in it.
Huh? PHP wasn’t the issue
It is. They need to move to a long running application base and they are not doing it.
Huuuurrrr duuuuurrr PHP bad duuuurrrrr
Very mature opinion rit there