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.
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.