--- title: "Is PHP the new JS?" url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-php-the-new-js--u2xgdnjkg source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1OMvPR-SNc type: video:youtube source: "Theo - t3․gg" published: 2025-05-28T07:00:13.718Z updated: 2025-05-28T07:00:27.487Z tags: ["webdev", "backend", "php", "laravel"] reading_time: 22 upvotes: 135 comments: 32 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Is PHP the new JS? **[Theo - t3․gg](https://daily.dev/sources/t3dotgg)** · 22 min read · 135 upvotes · 32 comments ## Summary The post explores the resurgence of PHP as a viable language in modern web development, largely driven by the Laravel framework. The author reflects on their personal journey with PHP, discussing its historical challenges and recent performance improvements. Laravel is highlighted for its comprehensive features that simplify web application development, making PHP enjoyable to use again. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@byteoutlaw** · 33 upvotes > Short answer -> NO! ;) **@jamstraw** · 30 upvotes > Calling PHP the new JS flips the script in an unexpected way. It’s not about replacing JavaScript, but recognizing how PHP has silently matured while we were all busy chasing the 'next big thing'. Maybe it’s time we stop equating 'legacy' with 'irrelevant'. **@xndbogdan** · 14 upvotes > In this comment section: > People who have not touched PHP in over a decade **@rba** · 10 upvotes > Absolutely not, it never had anything special to begin with, an unusually popular technology that attracted too many amateurs producing a ton of copy-paste nonsense and some popular e-commerce, blogging, forum and wiki platforms, while making the internet vulnerable to all kinds of attacks in the process. > > I know, I know, FB uses PHP too, and their own heavily optimized compilers and tools. Not sure how much of it is still PHP or how many data breaches and security problems they had until now because of it. > > PHP is and always will be a Hypertext Preprocessor. > Trying to modernize it means... **@istadius** · 4 upvotes > My main problem with PHP is that it is a scripting language, probably the fastest, but scripting and you feel that when you are writing CPU bound tasks. The other one is its inconsistency with the array functions but nothing that the Laravel Collections don't fix. > > I'm a PHP developer since more that 15 years. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/is-php-the-new-js--u2xgdnjkg)