PHP Should Be Dead… So Why Are Developers Still Building Amazing Apps With It?
Everyone loves to dunk on PHP. New devs sneer at it. The community treats it like a relic. Even after its latest update, many still consider it a "bad" language.
And yet… people keep using it. Not just using it—building successful, scalable, money-making applications with it.
If PHP is so awful, why hasn’t it died? What’s keeping it alive while so many other languages have faded into obscurity?
Everyone loves to dunk on PHP. New devs sneer at it. The community treats it like a relic. Even after its latest update, many still consider it a "bad" language.
And yet… people keep using it. Not just using it—building successful, scalable, money-making applications with it.
If PHP is so awful, why hasn’t it died? What’s keeping it alive while so many other languages have faded into obscurity?
Let's hear it—why is PHP still standing?