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No way, José!
PHP 🐘
PHP is a server side programming language that was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994.
Usage (server-side programming) 📉
For all websites on Internet according to w3techs:
Current day, 2026-01-15: 72.4% (-0%)
- January 2026: 72.4% (-3.1%)
- January 2025: 75.2% (-1,5%)
- January 2024: 76.7% (-1,0%)
- January 2023: 77.7% (-0,4%)
- January 2022: 78.1% (-1,1%)
- January 2021: 79.1% (+0,2%)
- January 2020: 78.9% (=)
- January 2019: 78.9% (-1,3%)
- January 2018: 80.2% (+0,2%)
- January 2017: 80.0% (=)
- January 2016: 80.0% (-0.6%)
- January 2015: 80.6% (+0.3%)
- January 2014: 80.3% (+0.6%)
- January 2013: 77.7%
Yes, PHP is declining, but slowly.
At this pace (-3.1% by year), it will die in 2050 🙏.
Dead? 🤔
Related blog posts/websites 🖋
- https://www.highsignal.io/blog/is-php-dead (2024)
- https://kinsta.com/blog/is-php-dead (2022)
- https://www.temok.com/blog/is-php-dead (2022)
- PHP in 100 Seconds (Youtube/Fireship, 2022)
- https://matcha.fyi/is-php-dead-or-alive (2021)
- https://intelicle.medium.com/is-php-dying-here-are-stats-to-show-that-it-isnt (2020)
- https://eluminoustechnologies.com/blog/php-is-dead (2019)
- https://hackernoon.com/php-is-dead-viva-le-php-f5dc5eb5c9c4 (2018)
- https://www.ishir.com/blog/4969/will-php-dead-soon.htm (2017)