PHP Popularity

These trends seem concerning for PHP.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/php/

https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-php.html

What outlook do y'all have for PHP? What are good alternatives to invest in? Python, Go, Rust, Elixir, C#, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Haskell, Clojure? Or maybe a focus on AI? I know this is a very tough question. Just looking for any thoughts. Obviously it depends on what you want to do, but looking only at future job prospects, what do you think?

ohffs

9 years ago

Best Answer

Level 50

At a very rough guess (and having looked at a lot of job adverts towards the end of last year), PHP has come one quite a bit in the past few years so there are more jobs asking for (say) a 'symfony/laravel/drupal/wordpress' developer rather than a PHP one.

Compare google trends for PHP and Laravel for instance :

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=php

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=laravel

That said - it's always worth having another language or two in your toolbelt. In job terms, Javascript, python and java aren't going to disappear anytime soon (and I think PHP will be around with them).

anjanesh

4 years ago

Level 5

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=php is totally misleading as PHP is the name of the currency of the country Philippines.

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