<story><title>PHP 7.4</title><url>https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-11-28-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SergeAx</author><text>The most interesting thing about PHP is it is, AFAIK, the most community-driven language today. Go, Python and JavaScript are all under heavy influence of Google, C#, VB.NET and TypeScript is Microsoft&amp;#x27;s turf, Java is Oracle&amp;#x27;s, Rust and WebAssembly - Mozilla&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;С and С++ are holding their grounds, but they are more and more niche today. Facebook tried to domesticate PHP, but failed spectacularly. So it looks like PHP is most democratic and liberal programming language of today) I am glad it&amp;#x27;s getting steadily ahead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leshow</author><text>Rust has a lot of core team members that no longer work at Mozilla, so this isn&amp;#x27;t really true today.&lt;p&gt;Also, C and C++ are some of the most widely used languages in the world. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call them niche.&lt;p&gt;Edit: according to the TIOBE C&amp;#x2F;C++ are ranked higher than PHP</text></comment>
<story><title>PHP 7.4</title><url>https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-11-28-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SergeAx</author><text>The most interesting thing about PHP is it is, AFAIK, the most community-driven language today. Go, Python and JavaScript are all under heavy influence of Google, C#, VB.NET and TypeScript is Microsoft&amp;#x27;s turf, Java is Oracle&amp;#x27;s, Rust and WebAssembly - Mozilla&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;С and С++ are holding their grounds, but they are more and more niche today. Facebook tried to domesticate PHP, but failed spectacularly. So it looks like PHP is most democratic and liberal programming language of today) I am glad it&amp;#x27;s getting steadily ahead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lillesvin</author><text>Aren&amp;#x27;t Elixir and Ruby primarily community driven too?</text></comment>