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I never got it why PHP kept getting bashed even nowadays, it's still the No.1 language for server side web building, Wordpress's market share alone eclipses all its "competitors" such as Nodejs and Django and Flask etc combined then times 100.

It's just like the Rust folks never miss any chance to bash C++, while C++'s market share keeps rising and after 16 years since Rust was created, it can not even make 1% of the market while C++ is 12%(excluding C which is 16%,again it keeps rising).

Rust's goal by the way should just replace Ada for specific areas, to take on C++ on a broader level it probably needs another few decades, if it can ever make it that is.

>>synerg+(OP)
I think it is a mistake to conflate the success of the Wordpress ecosystem (and its plugins) with the success of PHP. Just because Wordpress is popular as a CMS does not mean that the developers of Wordpress plugins would choose PHP otherwise.

It's also not a contest? I'm not sure why people care about these numbers. PHP keeps getting bashed because it's a bad programming language full of footguns, then and now, regardless of whether or not other programming languages exist.

>>synerg+(OP)
"16 years since Rust was created"?

how is it 16 years when Rust 1.0 was released in 2015?