One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

The Hack language makes its first appearance in the Tiobe index's top 50, and the D language is poised for a big leap Hack, Facebook’s PHP dialect, is gaining popularity, but don’t expect it to rival ...

Overview Curated list of PHP books for beginners and experts in 2025.Covers foundational skills, PHP 8 features, MySQL, and web development.Hands-on examples an ...

The PHP developer community is currently discussing a comprehensive license change. The aim is to replace the PHP and Zend licenses used to date with the standardized Modified BSD License. The ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

In brief: Learning a programming language can be tricky, especially for someone new to coding. However, knowing the most popular languages may help some make a critical decision. This choice could ...

TIOBE has published its latest Programming Community Index of the world’s most popular programming languages, revealing good growth for Kotlin and a continued dropoff in Java usage. It is important to ...

The DOU website has published its annual rating of programming languages based on a survey of about 7,500 Ukrainian IT professionals. From the mainstream — TypeScript and Python have overtaken ...