PHP Is Killing Python. Why PHP Is More Popular and More Hated

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6 points·TriNetra··6 comments

Unless I missed it, also if you do cheap website hosting you always get PHP. That was my introduction to PHP (in 2000 ish) and I knocked together a quick application in an evening. Led to a small but profitable side line - on cheap web hosting.

As a happy user of both PHP (for web dev) and Python (for just about everything else), this is a pretty shitty article

I always find these sort of arguments silly. Killing python in what field/applciation?

> PHP, in turn, is the language of the masses and it has become the de facto language of the World-wide Web.

Sure. But why does that matter?

Python has machine learning almost to itself (not counting to c++ backend that it depends on to do the actual number crunching).

Does the author site a source for this claim? According to this source it is not

https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

The article clearly states that PHP runs the large majority of web sites, and Python is not gaining ground there. The link you posted shows numbers of searches for programming tutorials. Not surprisingly Python wins there, probably because Python is pushed as a first language in schools, and PHP is not. Apples to oranges, in other words.

Python gets a lot of press as the supposedly “most popular” programming language, but if you measure number of web sites, or number of mobile or desktop apps, Python is not out in front, not even close. Python does lead in the number of people searching for help and tutorials. Python may lead in the number of newbie and hobbyist projects and school assignments. In the world of code people actually use Python remains niche, though it has a big footprint in data science.

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