The clickbait title “is Php going to die in … ?”

At the beginning of a new year and since I started studying information technology in 2016 and before that as well, every year I see an article talking about the death of the PHP language, and how it will become extinct forever and will replace it with other programming languages …

In fact, this type of article is to attract a lot of views only, even the author of the article knows that this thing is not true, for several reasons I will present it in a simple way in this article …

The power of community

PHP is characterized by a very large community of programmers.
And many backend programmers consider it the best choice to start learning backend, and you can then learn any backend language easily …
The strength and size of this huge community provided a very large number of resources for learning the PHP language, which makes learning backend methods in this language easy, fun, and available on the Internet in all forms.

Easy and uncomplicated

PHP is easy to learn compared to other background languages, and the less complex among them, in fact, you do not need to have learned programming at university to learn PHP.
In addition to the very large number of educational resources for PHP, the language provides a very large number of libraries because it is outdated and specialized in the field of the web in addition to the clear documentation.

The power of the open-source projects

In one way or another, all of the PHP strengths are related to the
The power of community …
As a result, there are a very large number of open-source projects available and ready to build a business on them that are trusted by a very large number of users, in addition to being constantly updated and developed by developers and make them usable by programmers and non-programmers.
The biggest example of this is WordPress, which has a very, very large number of successful projects built on it, so you can build your own blog on it in less than an hour! Without writing any line of code.
Not just WordPress, WordPress is the most popular, and there is too :
WooCommerce, Magento, Joomla, Drupal, And much much more …
Some of them are available for use directly by non-programmers, and others are intended for programmers.

The power of frameworks

As I said before, everything is related to the strength of a community, and frameworks are one of the products of this strong community.
PHP has a very large number of frameworks that are easy to learn and get the job done quickly, The most famous of these frameworks is Laravel, it is the most famous framework in the world, and its best strength is the ease of use and there are a very large number of learning resources, and it is constantly updated, and there are a very large number of projects based on it, and programmers prefer to use it in freelancing projects.

Conclusion

PHP is very difficult to die because it has a very large share of sites on the Internet. Perhaps the most popular site used by a very large number of people is Facebook, which was built using PHP.
There are many sites built with PHP and it is very difficult to get rid of PHP and replace it with another language in these sites it is more complicated than you think.

In addition to having a strong community, it is also being updated, upgraded continuously, which makes it a competition for all old and modern backend languages.