How PHP died
summary
An exploration of PHP’s perceived decline: it traces how critics declared PHP ‘dead’, examines the technologies and projects that were positioned as its replacements, and explains why those shifts occurred. The talk surveys PHP’s language evolution, current implementations and forks, and modern development trends showing how PHP can still be used and what benefits its contemporary solutions provide.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Welcome
- 0:48Who is Rasmus Lerdorf
- 3:56PHP's rise to fame
- 8:13Zend Engine debut
- 10:20PHP 4 impact
- 11:01PHP 5 and 7 breakthroughs
- 12:24PHP in modern projects
- 14:31PHP usage stats
- 15:18PHP vs Perl and JavaScript
- 16:59Java and Python vs PHP
- 18:51Ruby in web dev
- 20:38PHP popularity in Russia
- 21:00PHP vs Go and Node.js
- 23:38Go pros and cons
- 25:08Learn PHP in 2025?
- 27:17PHP is alive and evolving
- 28:44Q&A
