How long is PHP left to live?

Question

PHP

The wording of the question is a little frivolous, but friends, I urge you, let's go without it here :)
I'm a PHP specialist, for quite a long time, 6 years to be exact.
Question: How many years do you think this technology has left to "live"? How long will the vacancy of a php programmer be valid? Maybe forever?
The industry is developing at a very fast pace, a little old to be honest.
What's next? How to prepare for this?

Answer 1

Then there will be a pension. If you have been working with PHP for 6 years and have not touched anything else, you don’t know, you haven’t developed, then I can only sympathize with you.
The language itself is not important. Language is a tool with which you solve current problems. As for PHP or something else, no one will certainly guarantee the relevance of this technology in 20 years. But I think in the next 5-8 years PHP will remain where it is - on the web. New languages ​​will come to him as competitors, and they will squeeze him out. Accordingly, demand will only fall.

Answer 2

Day 3 I think.

Answer 3

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   if($язык_будет_в_разы_превосходить_пшп){

      if($язык_признает_сообщество_разрабов){

         echo "Язык PHP вымрет как FLASH вымирает из-за JS";

      }else{echo "Не парься и работай дальше";}

   }else{echo "Не парься и работай дальше";}

}else{echo "Не парься и работай дальше";}

Answer 4

PHP will be number one on the web for a very long time to come.
And it will outlive dozens of ephemera like Node.js.

Answer 5

Well Symfony2 got 7 lam investments recently. PHP consortium 10 lam.
In principle, PHP6 will rework the API - legacy methods will be removed, a full-fledged JIT with llvm port will appear, annotations will be introduced, and PHP itself will be more like Java ... and no backward compatibility.
In vain bury.
p.s. at least that's how it's planned...

Answer 6

I think he will outlive you :)

Answer 7

I wonder what answer you expect? I will say this: he will live right up to his very end.
Your fears are justified in terms of the fact that vacancies for a php programmer (in my region) are becoming less and less common.
And you can avoid or mitigate the consequences of changing technology if you do not focus only on php, but study other languages ​​and technologies and try to use "best practices". This is my opinion, I could be wrong.

Answer 8

In 2008 PHP was ranked #5 by TIOBE, now it's #6. I think 10 - 15 years, no less. Enough for our time)

Answer 9

I write in php, in my free time, for myself, picking python, ruby, node.js. I think that in the skills of a programmer, knowledge of the language is not the main thing, and if necessary, changing the language is not such a big problem.

Answer 10

Unfortunately PHP will live forever

Answer 11

As long as it is maintained and developed, it will not go anywhere. So it's better to address this question to the development team

Answer 12

PHP won't die for a very long time. Its popularity is certainly declining and now it is already necessary to master alternatives.
Already called JS and Python. I’ll add Go on my own - if development starts from scratch, it’s very easy to convince a client that you need to use Go, simply by showing how much it is faster, eats less memory and it’s easier to make secure applications.

Answer 13

for another 10 years, you don’t have to worry about too many ecomertz projects now tied to php, and the same facebook and vkontakte on it.

Answer 14

the php trend is slowly falling, as the Delphi trend began to fall at one time. What do we have in the bottom line with Delphi? There are niches left where the code compiled on this environment is spinning, and it requires both support and further development. And this means that there are still Delphi programmers somewhere, but it becomes difficult to find such vacancies.
Comparison with Delphi is slightly incorrect in the sense that it is still a commercial environment. Therefore, in comparison with PCP, analogies can be drawn, but stretched over time. However, a comparison is still possible.

Answer 15

Blah, I don’t understand the meaning of the raised topic at all!
If you know one language, then don't give a shit, assimilation of new information is its attachment to the old one. When you stop, you will learn the syntax of another and his chips in 3 months, and after another 3 all the underwater base stones and swim further. But if the hemorrhoids are old, then this will really be the number one problem, which will seem like a complete catastrophe compared to mastering a new language. )))