Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

The Hack language makes its first appearance in the Tiobe index's top 50, and the D language is poised for a big leap Hack, Facebook’s PHP dialect, is gaining popularity, but don’t expect it to rival ...