New comment by codegeek in "Ask HN: Is PHP still relevant?"

Depends on what you want out of it.

- Jobs. There are plenty of PHP jobs. Some pay low but plenty pay high as well. I doubt there are jobs in backend languages that can beat PHP in terms of volume. But again, may be you don't care about volume and options.

- Ease of installation: Almost all web hosts have a default LAMP stack where P is PHP. You can setup a php website in few seconds, literally. Compiled languages may have a single binary but they still some tuning and the sheer volume of PHP servers make it easy for anyone to get started. But compared to other interpreted languages (looking at you Python), deployment is the easiest.

- Composer: I think it is an underrated package management tool. Well managed and does the job. If you are used to npm horrors, composer is a welcome change.

- WordPress. Have to talk about WordPress when it comes to PHP. Powers like 30% of ENTIRE world's websites. That is big. So yea, PHP not going anywhere anytime soon. And No, clients don't give a shit if PHP sucks. They don't.

- Laravel/Symfony: Awesome full-stack frameworks. You can build anything quickly using Laravel. If you are more creative, you can use symfony components to build your own. Both are awesome.

- PHP 7: Game changer compared to PHP 5.x. Google it.

- Documentation and support systems: Google and you will get an answer to almost any PHP related question. Try that with some of the shinier languages.

There are obviously lot of negatives as well but since you asked, I would say it is VERY relevant and will remain so for a while.

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