--- title: PHP was created as a dead language | daily.dev description: Discussion about "PHP was created as a dead language" on daily.dev - join the developer community canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/php-was-created-as-a-dead-language-uy2totjuq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PHP was created as a dead language | daily.dev og:description: Discussion about "PHP was created as a dead language" on daily.dev - join the developer community og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-was-created-as-a-dead-language-uy2totjuq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uY2tOtJUq.png og:image:alt: PHP was created as a dead language og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # PHP was created as a dead language **[Lonely Programmer](https://daily.dev/sources/lonely_programmer)** · [@tkouleris](https://daily.dev/tkouleris) · 1 min read · 358 upvotes · 54 comments ## Content  ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@captbrogers** · 86 upvotes > So if I use a dead language does that make me some sort of necromancer? **@aviator** · 18 upvotes > PHP is that guy who doesn't talk and minds his business, many come, compete and go but he doesn't care since he knows he is the beast. **@colinpickup** · 11 upvotes > PHP got popular because PHP was free when everyone else was trying to sell their server technology. As such, PHP hosting was cheaper, and that made it more popular. Now, PHP is popular because PHP was popular. > > It's probably going to continute to have a 70%+ market share until people stop just selling everyone wordpresses because that's all they know how to build. **@brunoc** · 7 upvotes > Latin is jealous **@brdly** · 7 upvotes > PHP is dead, long live PHP. --- Tags: [#aspnet](https://daily.dev/tags/aspnet), [#nextjs](https://daily.dev/tags/nextjs), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/php-was-created-as-a-dead-language-uy2totjuq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/php-was-created-as-a-dead-language-uy2totjuq","headline":"PHP was created as a dead language","text":"Discussion about \"PHP was created as a dead language\" on daily.dev - join the developer community","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/php-was-created-as-a-dead-language-uy2totjuq","datePublished":"2025-07-25T08:13:08.892Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:45:27.907Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Thodoris Kouleris","url":"https://daily.dev/tkouleris","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--uIsOE4Yj--/f_auto/v1767330823/avatars/avatar_MCMbuJilInDUS9HqV2wPG?_a=BAMAK+ZW0","description":"The Lonely Programmer","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":12320}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--L7C2Vav5--/f_auto/v1753431189/posts/uY2tOtJUq?_a=BAMClqZW0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":358},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":54}],"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"So if I use a dead language does that make me some sort of necromancer?","datePublished":"2025-07-25T19:54:13.234Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/uY2tOtJUq#c-DKIFBVTrX","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian","url":"https://daily.dev/captbrogers","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--fxKDsrHG--/f_auto/v1725029434/avatars/avatar_1T2aH9naKC7gkPezkMNpM"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":86}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"PHP is that guy who doesn’t talk and minds his business, many come, compete and go but he doesn’t care since he knows he is the beast.","datePublished":"2025-07-28T08:08:28.182Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/uY2tOtJUq#c-IbLgfQGEI","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Yonathaniel K","url":"https://daily.dev/aviator","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AAcHTtfEyQXOiLfYrY6eortikEbKsK8Izg57sLtogt-NZzbIcpxr=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":18}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"PHP got popular because PHP was free when everyone else was trying to sell their server technology. 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