Developer analyst RedMonk currently positions PHP as the fourth most popular language, only behind Java, Python and JavaScript. Tiobe Software puts PHP in eighth place.

PHP is used by 76.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Alternatives such as ASP.net, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript don’t even come close to this share of the market.

In a list of the top programming languages used by developers in 2022, released by Statista analysts, JavaScript came in first. It was closely followed by HTML, then SQL, Python and TypeScript, in ...