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Sorry guys,PHP is the outdated! (From someone who start PHP in 2000 with PHP 2.0 and is still reading lastest Laravel code source). To young people: choose your language wisely, you don't need to know PHP to be successful in Web dev

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The top open-source ecommerce platforms (magento, woocommerce, etc) and content management systems (wordpress) are all in PHP, and yes they were written before 2000. You don't need to know PHP to be a successful web dev if you are working at a silicon valley tech / social media company, but e-com and content management are still what most companies are trying to do on the internet, and if you are interested in a tech career outside of silicon valley, being handy with PHP is great.

I am just hoping for change....

That's certainly true, but we're living in a funny time, everything has evolved so quickly that there are 15yr old PHP apps rubbing shoulders with 7yr old Rails apps next to 4yr old Node apps and now React etc. Some of that represents actual progress, some fashion, but for all those legacy apps, someone has to keep the lights on (until the plug gets pulled). That said, I don't really miss PHP too much, it was much nicer than Perl for adding a little magic to html, but building anything big was not fun (I gather Laravel makes that better these days, but there are a lot of other choices if you're starting fresh).

> From someone who start PHP in 2000 with PHP 2.0

That doesn't add up. There was no "PHP 2.0"; the language was still referred to as PHP/FI at that point. And PHP 3 was released in 1998 -- by 2000, I have a hard time believing you would have still been using PHP/FI, which was a much more limited tool.

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