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Search for alternative to WordPress surges worldwide amidst rift between WP-Engine and Matt Mullenweg (www.techradar.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.

The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yes! Finally the world can maybe move on from PHP!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Huh? PHP wasn't the issue

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It is. They need to move to a long running application base and they are not doing it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

PHP 7 or 8 + Laravel is fine

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

PHP 8 is actually really good. Think last time I was angry at PHP was pre 7.4 PHP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I don't see why I should care. In 2001, your choices for backend webdev were basically PHP, Perl, Python, or Java. Now we have a dozen languages competing for the top spot. Elixir is becoming a personal favorite, but I don't see why I should bother with PHP if I don't already have a legacy platform in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Have they stopped using every naming convention there is (including some from other planets) in their function names?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes it has gotten much better after 8.0

Of course PHP still has some baggage but 7.x was such a breath of fresh air that it gave me hope. 8.x made me love PHP

Edit: for context to people who don't work with php on how this has been an issue (and continues to still be: Hasn't been updated in a long time but still awesome php shortcomings website from the creator of advent of code

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

ConventionForReal_real_v2()

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago

Huuuurrrr duuuuurrr PHP bad duuuurrrrr

Very mature opinion rit there