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I couldn't find a date on this article, but I don't think this line is accurate anymore:

"Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Flickr, Tumblr all these sites run in PHP and welcome millions of users every month without flinching."

Facebook dropped PHP for their own language called Hack, which I think is based on PHP but with a lot of the things people complain about changed.

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I don't mind PHP (like I don't mind lots of things that I don't really have to deal with), but Hack is by far my favorite web language. It has most of what's nice about PHP (specifically, reload and your changes are there, memory is request-scoped, etc.), without most of what's awful (the HSL fixes most of the goofy inconsistencies, real (although still not as expressive as I'd like it to be) static typing, etc.).

Wordpress. Over a third of the web is Wordpress.

FWIW I found this in the RSS feed for this site:

    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2019 04:05:19 +0000</pubDate>

> but with a lot of the things people complain about changed.

and some of those things have changed in base PHP as well too.

I think it might even cross compile in some fashion.

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