PHP

PHP powers over 70% of all websites worldwide. With versions 7 and 8, the language made a significant leap in performance and type safety, and is today a serious enterprise tool.

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Core concept

A scripting language designed specifically for the web. Through its shared-nothing model, PHP is extremely robust and easy to scale. Modern frameworks (Laravel, Symfony) bring software architecture best practices into the PHP world.

Assessment

• Use case: Web applications of any size, CMS systems (WordPress, Grav), and e-commerce.
• Advantage: Vast ecosystem, very easy deployment, and excellent cost-to-performance ratio for hosting.
• Limitation: Less suited to long-running processes (daemons) or systems programming compared to Go or Rust.

Related topics

• Laravel, the comparison tool for PHP.
• Symfony, the comparison tool for PHP.
• LAMP Stack, the comparison tool for PHP.