Honest question, who uses php anymore?

I know there must be a ton of random sites which makes this a huge deal.

But, does it affect any big players? I think php is big at Meta but I would imagine its so heavily customized it might be safe from this.

Writers/editors really, really like Wordpress for some reason, which is like 40% of the Internet, add to that all the other Php stuff. At $DAY_JOB we have a Wordpress instance behind our VPN and use the json API to send the articles to a front-end server written in something else. Forces us to duplicate some of the front-end plugin code (and we try to not use many) but we get peace of mind in exchange.

There's a pretty huge UCaaS software suite that serves millions of seats across the US that runs on PHP 7.4.

Not really. Just little sites like Wikipedia.

I use PHP.

Just as a scripting language on my own laptop, nothing prod. But one thing I notice, even coming back to it after a little while, even after using Python for everything, I find I am effortlessly productive with it.

There was an article I read recently about a blind developer who finds it easy to write in, as the "$" for the variable names makes it easier for him to identify what's going on in any given line of code.

Like any language it has advantages and disadvantages.

I think the ubiquiti edgerouter admin interfaces use PHP. I don’t know about mikrotik, but wouldn’t surprise me if there are a lot of those devices hanging off the internet on some nonstandard port.

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