Why didn't we have a meme with these wobbly piles of blocks representing the internet structure having one tiny pillar identified as PHP yet ?
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Is the director the only staff member? Does he want a raise?
“We have one full-time staff member (that's me) and 14 mostly part-time contractors,” Executive Director Elizabeth Barron of the PHP Foundation said via email in an interview on Friday. Board members are unpaid volunteers, and funding comes from donations and grants.
Sounds more like she is stretched thin, and pointing out how unsustainable the current model is. Only one person dedicated to maintaining a programming language that ~70% of the internet uses is the perfect example of that xkcd “all modern infrastructure, vs one obscure person who has thanklessly been maintaining a project since 1997” meme.
Facebook rewrote the interpreter, I am not sure why the world didn’t switch to that
because it didn't support the same features and ended up being a fork of the language called hack.
since it wasnt a replacement and would have required lot of software to be modified or in some cases like wordpress and drupal largely rewritten it never saw wide adoption.
Because it’s Facebook
The world seemed eager enough to use React, though
Because it was targeted at facebook's unique use case, poorly supported, abd didn't keep up with upstream changes.
Not sure why the php foundation didn’t look at frankenphp and said yes this will be the software for php9
NIH i guess
i think this comment misunderstands what frankenphp and the foundation are.
- its supports php because it is php. its built on top by loading it as a library. it doesnt implement the language so is not and does not want to be a replacement.
- the foundation doesn't choose where the language goes. They support development in various ways but language design goes through an rfc process influenced by lots of people.
- frankenphp does come up in devel mailing list discussions. i think its largely thought it being an external project is a stregth but also closely part of the project.
I am not sure why the world didn’t switch to that
Not invented here syndrome by PHP Foundation and downstream users use whatever the default is.