Why people are moving away from PHP?

@Jilano many of them are to python or node.js

I dislike PHP due to its mixed typing politics, weird operators, no operator overloading and performance issues. Start a process per request (have fpm or similar to "boost" loading time). Urgh. I rather compile once and have a runtime more often.

But it works and therefore I make my money with it...

I moved couple months ago from PHP to ASP.NET due to getting a job in ASP.NET :)

@Jilano see @FahadAlt

Where are you getting your facts from? Sounds like bull to me.

@Ganofins So you've seen like two people and you've concluded a vague amount of people are moving from one of the most used languages

PHP is fine.

@neodite @b4dev @inaba @Jilano @PonySlaystation looks like I am wrong
Actually the question should be
Are people moving away from PHP?

@Ganofins No.

because it has hard syntax, i moved couple months ago to python.
python and django are like god, php and laravel like human

If I'm being honest the syntax is one of the easiest out there and if you find it difficult then maybe PHP is too advanced for you. Just saying.

@Ganofins @FahadAlt is not moving away from PHP because the job required ASP, not because it was its choice (maybe it was, but he didn't say that..).

People isn't moving away from PHP. Just because you see a bunch of people switching from PHP to something else, it doesn't mean that the whole web is doing the same. And even if a lot of people is working with a lot of front-end frameworks (react, vue, angular, ember, whateverNewFrameworkWillBeReleadedThisMonth..), you must not forget that something is powering their backend... Mostly PHP.

@amirbig PHP syntax... HARD?

@taglia @Ganofins its the job requirement :)

@taglia
in comparison with python, YES🙂

The support period is too short. 2 years full support, then 1 extra year of critical security fixes only. Many projects won't be upgraded until well into the first year, leaving only a single year of full support. That's garbage.