PHP as an ecosystem
This can be seen in several things that we can list together, as follows:
- PHP is, still in the early 2020s, the most used server-side language for web application development. When you know the predominant (not to say overwhelming) place of web applications in our everyday use, this is a genuinely nice award!
- The language continues to evolve very strongly, especially in recent years. It went through a slump during the development of PHP 6 (which was never released) before experiencing a real explosion of its popularity starting with version 7. Version 7 defined the foundation of the future of PHP with highly demanded features such as strong typing, as well as incredible performance and speed improvement. Benchmarks comparing PHP 5 and 7 were just crazy when they first came out. Developments continue strongly, with new features being proposed very regularly.
- PHP has an exceptional dependency manager named Composer. Simple, open source, and devilishly...