---
title: "PHP Has Survived for 26 Years Because It Keeps Evolving – The New Stack"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-has-survived-for-26-years-because-it-keeps-evolving-the-new-stack-x-rfws0ux
source_url: https://thenewstack.io/php-has-survived-for-26-years-because-it-keeps-evolving/
type: article
source: "The New Stack"
author: "Richard MacManus"
published: 2021-11-29T16:42:46.734Z
updated: 2026-03-15T07:37:57.792Z
tags: ["devtools", "general-programming", "jquery", "php", "tools", "wordpress"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 22
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# PHP Has Survived for 26 Years Because It Keeps Evolving – The New Stack

**[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · [@ricmac](https://daily.dev/ricmac) · 5 min read · 22 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The company JetBrains announced on its blog the creation of The PHP Foundation. Among the newly announced partners for the new foundation is Automattic, the company behind WordPress. PHP is currently used by 36% of the top 1 million websites — and that figure has been sliding down since around the middle of last year.

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