Ask HN: Has PHP declined in popularity?

2 points by sabbasb 10 years ago | 1 comment

Just curious if Javascript is getting more popular than PHP

smt88 10 years ago |

There's not really any way to know. Because of WordPress, PHP is still by far the most popular back-end language for the web (in terms of raw number of sites running on it).

Because JavaScript is the only language that runs in all browsers, it's by far the most widely-known language. Anyone who touches the web, which is most developers, tends to have at least a passing knowledge of it.