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Why PHP Usage Has Declined by 40% in Just Over 2 Years
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That article makes little sense. There is not a non-php version of WordPress at this time. I know Gutenberg uses Node and NPM, but the heavy lifting is still PHP. There has always been client side scripting and server side scripting with WP. I'll buy that devs are lobbying clients to use something else, but to say this is because WordPress is driving the change can't be right.
Yes, they seem to have WP blinkers on.
It is far more likely that this is from the rise of "sexier" server-side coding languages like Rust. Now I don't know much about Rust (although I will look into it more) but I a bit of Googling on Rust vs PHP a while back and PHP is still a solid choice for a lot of things and there seem to be a lot more people out there who can code in it, making it a.good choice for FOSS projects.