Why? Because nobody is innovating in PHP anymore. PHP's glory days were over well past a decade ago.
When you look at charts like the Tiobe Index What you are seeing are numbers held up by the language's past inertia. The only companies hiring for PHP devs are run by greybeards who can't learn a new trick and companies maintaining legacy software, like Word Press and PHPBB.
PHP was designed to replace PERL and it has succeeded in becoming obsolete along side it.
Upgrading a LAMP stack is kind of like upgrading Geocities. If you are going to bother, you might as well just tear everything down and start from scratch.
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0 u/Master_Foo 30 Jul 2015 00:11
Why? Because nobody is innovating in PHP anymore. PHP's glory days were over well past a decade ago.
When you look at charts like the Tiobe Index What you are seeing are numbers held up by the language's past inertia. The only companies hiring for PHP devs are run by greybeards who can't learn a new trick and companies maintaining legacy software, like Word Press and PHPBB.
PHP was designed to replace PERL and it has succeeded in becoming obsolete along side it.
Upgrading a LAMP stack is kind of like upgrading Geocities. If you are going to bother, you might as well just tear everything down and start from scratch.