Last month, I went to a talk by Richard McIntyre on “The Future of PHP”.
Turns out, it’s JavaScript.
More and more these days, web applications are being developed with fat front end clients loaded with JavaScript, and the server-side processing is primarily used for data processing and APIs. So we’re seeing a shift from PHP being used as a somewhat front-end technology to merely (I say merely, there is a lot of work to do it) delivering the content in a format the JavaScript front end can consume.
Perhaps this is why we’ve seen a rise in the number of microframeworks, such as Silex, that I recently blogged about.
I think the overriding message I took away from the talk though is that they’re inventing development platforms faster than I can learn them! I’ve already got a large list of technologies and libraries I need to review and I think I came away from this talk with another half a dozen!
Really enjoyed the talk though, and if you’re interested in PHP and in the Leeds area you should definitely check out the Leeds PHP User Group who host such events on a monthly basis.
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Tags: future, javascript, leeds, PHP
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