🎉 PHP’s Revival: Against All Odds, It’s Thriving

Tom Smykowski
3 min readSep 18, 2024

PHP, once overshadowed by newer technologies, is making a remarkable comeback. Despite facing stiff competition from languages like JavaScript and Python, PHP’s resurgence is fueled by exciting developments such as Laravel’s recent $57 million funding boost for cloud services

It’s not quite a mystery PHP is, besides JavaScript the most popular programming language for the web. It started as an easy way to build scripts to run backend and render frontend code when there was no tools to do it easily and offered quite a wide API.

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Over the years it’s popularity rose to dominance because of the vast offering of servers that supported running PHP and tools and CMS like Wordpress, a great ecosystem build by PHP developers.

But PHP has also bad years that started soon after. With everyone trying to take place of PHP. Like C# with ASP.NET, JavaScript (with Node.js), Java and today Rust, Golang and Python too.

The most risky times were the ones where cloud providers, falling short to support the most popular…

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.