PHP is used by 76.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Alternatives such as ASP.net, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript don’t even come close to this share of the market.

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...

Microsoft's superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, has shot up to become the fourth most popular programming language on code collaboration platform, GitHub. TypeScript's ascent is tracked in ...

Builds will stop with version 8.0 and beyond, and support for PHP 7.2 will end in November. Microsoft will stop contributing Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language 8.0 and beyond ...

Apart from PHP—which held a 72.5 percent share in 2010 and holds a 78.9 percent share as of today—only one other server-side language ever broke a 10 percent share.

The basics of object-oriented programming (OOP) were there -- you could create a class and single inheritance was supported. With the release of PHP 5 in 2004 there was plenty of room for improving ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...