---
title: "Stop Saying PHP Is Dead."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-saying-php-is-dead--ndca-0isc
source_url: https://warrickbayman.medium.com/stop-saying-php-is-dead-9489ed7dc25e
type: article
source: "The Startup"
published: 2020-12-04T12:57:36.765Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["wordpress", "php"]
reading_time: 13
upvotes: 39
comments: 8
language: en
---

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# Stop Saying PHP Is Dead.

**[The Startup](https://daily.dev/sources/swlh)** · 13 min read · 39 upvotes · 8 comments

## Summary

Every month I read an article, or a comment or tweet stating that PHP is dying and we should stop using it. I have spent close on 20 years writing stuff in PHP, among other languages, and, for the most part, I have simply ignored much of that side of the conversation. For almost all of those years, PHP has been “dying” and I should’ve stopped using it years ago. With the recent release of PHP 8, “now’s the right time’.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ronaldroe** · 5 upvotes

> The only reason it hasn't died yet is people insist on keeping it on life support.

**@thejuanon** · 5 upvotes

> PHP is dead

**@adomas** · 3 upvotes

> PHP is not dead and will never die. Long live PHP

**@gabiarzu** · 1 upvotes

> the meme will live for ever, just like PHP.

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