Is PHP Going to Remain the Preferred Web Development Tool?
It seems that whenever a new technology becomes hot, industry analysts immediately begin declaring older technologies dead. With the rise of popularity of development tools like Ruby on Rails, some people are questioning whether PHP will remain viable as a web platform. This seems utterly ridiculous. PHP has a number of things going for it that will ensure that it will not only remain viable but preferred as a web development tool for a long time. According to Netcraft, PHP powers over 20 million domains on the web today. That represents a huge pool of development talent that are trained and skilled in PHP. The sheer number of developers working in PHP is one reason that PHP will remain viable as a web technology well into the future. Retraining developers is a time consuming and expensive task. As long as developers continue to prefer PHP, it will remain viable as a web development tool. Remember many business decision makers do not have the technical background to select the developm
