PHP is more dominant than ever
Over 3,000 projects and 220 million lines of source code shows the changing popularity of web scripting languages, specifically PHP.
One thing that we can readily see is the increasing dominance of PHP over the last several years:
It's clear that the web is being built with PHP. Measured purely by the number of new lines of code, PHP leaves all other web-scripting languages in the dust, and continues to grow. Quite simply, one-fifth of all open source code being written today is written in PHP.
This isn't much of a surprise. The top five most popular projects starting with MediaWiki, phpBB, and Coppermine -- are all written in PHP. The world is shifting away from rich client applications, and towards the web. PHP looks like the language of choice in this new world.
Another way to compare a language's popularity is to measure the number of developers actually working in that language
One thing that we can readily see is the increasing dominance of PHP over the last several years:
It's clear that the web is being built with PHP. Measured purely by the number of new lines of code, PHP leaves all other web-scripting languages in the dust, and continues to grow. Quite simply, one-fifth of all open source code being written today is written in PHP.
This isn't much of a surprise. The top five most popular projects starting with MediaWiki, phpBB, and Coppermine -- are all written in PHP. The world is shifting away from rich client applications, and towards the web. PHP looks like the language of choice in this new world.
Another way to compare a language's popularity is to measure the number of developers actually working in that language
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