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PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says (www.reuters.com)
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[+] -37 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

Yk what isn’t understaffed? Other, better languages.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

    There might be “better” languages, but PHP is still used by ~70% of the web.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    That number is a bit questionable:

    • It only includes sites where the server-side language can be detected. That's often easy with PHP because of URLs ending in .php and well-known software like Wordpress which identifies itself in ways that are easy for a crawler to detect.
    • It counts sites, not traffic. There are a lot of Wordpress sites out there which get three visitors a month.
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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    and well-known software like Wordpress

    Sorry, but you're using the fact that PHP is used by the framework that makes up about 40% of the web on its own as an argument against the claim that PHP might be on as much as 70% of all websites? That's before you start getting into other platforms like Drupal and MediaWiki, or more general-purpose frameworks like Laravel.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago

    It only includes sites where the server-side language can be detected. That's often easy with PHP because of URLs ending in .php and well-known software like Wordpress which identifies itself in ways that are easy for a crawler to detect.

    So there are possibly more PHP sites out there than we realize, because the ones which disguise their URLs are ambiguous

    It counts sites, not traffic. There are a lot of Wordpress sites out there which get three visitors a month.

    You shouldn’t be as concerned with popularity, and much more concerned with attack surface. Your argument certainly can’t be that there are thousands of idle servers out there that should no longer be maintained because no one reads the blog hosted on them?

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  • [+] -6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    So what. It's like saying hunger is good because most people are hungry.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    They, notably, did not say that PHP was good.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I’m aware of that. I’m questioning it still being used.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Are you actually though? Because if you were actually wondering this, it wouldn't take a genius to figure out that you can very easily stop wondering by googling something along the lines of "what websites were downed on account of the recent php vulnerability". But you clearly haven't. So why the fuck are you even in this conversation?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    You're right. Also, spoken language is much better than written language, let's get rid of written language as well.

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