On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote:
> Hi all, > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Michael Wallner <mike.php....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> On 27 Jul 2014 09:26, "Kris Craig" <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Michael Wallner < >> mike.php....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On 27 Jul 2014 08:23, "Kris Craig" <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Here's my question to counter yours, Michael: What's the rush? >> >> > >> >> >> >> Every day php-ng is not GA, PHP is losing ground to its competitors. >> > >> > Umm, how? Do you have any data to support this? According to >> http://php.net/usage.php, as of 2012, PHP's usage is steadily >> increasing. As far as our competitors are concerned, well: >> > >> > >> http://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/pl-java,pl-php,pl-ruby,pl-python >> > >> > >> > As you can see, PHP continues to dominate with over 80% market share >> and no signs-- at least, none that I can see-- that we are "losing ground" >> as you stated. >> > >> >> Surely it's wise to make the same wrong assumptions Microsoft did with >> Internet Explorer? >> > PHP is losing as a general scripting language for sure. > JavaScript is winning in this area even if it was originated as "a web > client scripting language". > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html > http://langpop.com/ > > We are better to consider this situation seriously. IMHO. > Focus on web as well as encourage general usage is what we need. > Making PHP a choice for "new" project should be one of the most important > objective. > > Regards, > > -- > Yasuo Ohgaki > yohg...@ohgaki.net > > According to w3techs, JavaScript retains an extremely tiny market share in terms of general purpose languages: http://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/pl-java,pl-php,pl-ruby,pl-python,pl-js It looks like the sources are all measuring different metrics. It would be interesting to see a closer analysis of the data and figure out which metrics are the most relevant to this question. --Kris
