March 4th, 2020 at 1:40 AM
It got popular because it's well, easy. You don't need to be a web developer to use it. All you need to do is click buttons and type some content in and it'll handle the rest.
I doubt there will be any more alternatives. PHP is still way faster than Node will ever be (love me some abstraction layers) and PHP doesn't run the web server like Node typically does, instead operating like a module for the web server which is already fast AF because it's been developed for decades and constantly improved on.
Not tryna excuse PHP for being a terribly designed language but hey, it's easy to work with because of all the docs and countless tutorials everywhere.
In a decade PHP might die, but again I wouldn't bet on it. We might see PHP8 as a huge overhaul of the whole thing, like Perl5 vs. Perl6 being nowhere near similar.
I doubt there will be any more alternatives. PHP is still way faster than Node will ever be (love me some abstraction layers) and PHP doesn't run the web server like Node typically does, instead operating like a module for the web server which is already fast AF because it's been developed for decades and constantly improved on.
Not tryna excuse PHP for being a terribly designed language but hey, it's easy to work with because of all the docs and countless tutorials everywhere.
In a decade PHP might die, but again I wouldn't bet on it. We might see PHP8 as a huge overhaul of the whole thing, like Perl5 vs. Perl6 being nowhere near similar.
