alt Hacker NewsMeta is the sole reason PHP is still alive. Also a big reason we're not in MVC hell.
They bet on open source and they open source a lot of technology.
It's one of the best companies when it comes to open source.
I don't know how much total they donate, but I've seen tons of grants given to projects from them.
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ianhawes • today at 2:11 PM
> Meta is the sole reason PHP is still alive.
This could not be more wrong. Meta is still using PHP AFAIK but I'm not sure it's modern. They created the Hack programming language ~10 years ago but it doesn't look like it's been updated in several years. Most of the improvements they touted were included in PHP 7 years ago.
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righthand • today at 1:51 PM
Yeah we’re in React SPA hell instead. I’d rather be in MVC hell.
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I think that WordPress is still big enough to keep PHP alive. Furthermore, the sheer number of developer that started coding web apps with PHP in year 2000 plus minus 5 years is large enough to give PHP a critical mass for the next 20 years.