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I mean, it’s not like PHP is unpopular.

According to the first thing I googled, it’s more popular than Go, and even higher up the list if you remove languages like C/C++ that aren’t typically used for web.

https://www.hackerrank.com/blog/most-popular-languages-2023/



For the web, PHP remains #1. It's super fast, especially when using FrankenPHP or Swoole. Laravel has the fastest development velocity out of any framework available.




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