What will happen with PHP in the future?
What are your opinions about PHP language future? Does this language have any perspectives or it will be replaced by a new technology later? What do you think about this?
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webwiz posted this at 04:55 — 22nd November 2008.
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Who knows? COBOL and FORTRAN were devised in the 1950s and are still in wide use today, mostly in legacy applications. Smalltalk looked like a great O-O language in the early 1990s but died a quick death. And BASIC might have been long dead by now if a certain billionaire had not staked his future on it.
My wizard's crystal ball is foggy here. Sorry.
Cordially, David
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Zaccaria posted this at 16:38 — 24th November 2008.
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PHP is a very popular language. In the future, I would bet that not only will it still be around, but will be more advanced with more functions & flexibility.
greg posted this at 03:42 — 26th November 2008.
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I can only guess that it will remain used by many and the number of users will only grow with time.
It is constantly being developed and updated for new requirements and improvements. Security aspects improved etc
It's free and allows for extremely complex or simple tasks to be carried out, from complete site member management to simply redirecting a page.
Things like this usually disapear when the alternatives/competition become better and/or cheaper.
What competition or alternatives are there to PHP? Taking into account PHP is continuoulsy being developed and updated, is free and has a HUGE amount of resources available for learning and support (also free).
Zaccaria posted this at 18:07 — 29th November 2008.
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Like HTML, PHP will be around for generations to come.
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 04:17 — 30th November 2008.
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I agree that PHP will be around for a while. It's pretty hard for open source projects to die, especially when so many people and companies depend on it. If the original project leaders abandon it, someone else will pick it up.
Biboo posted this at 16:13 — 24th December 2008.
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PHP is really bright, Just simple test in Google search by typing any technology and search then u will notice that search results for "php" is much more than that of any web technology.
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