Facebook has released a programming language called Hack ... which replicates many of the same features and functions of PHP, and adds a few of its own for greater productivity, said Bryan ...

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 ...

Microsoft's superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, has shot up to become the fourth most popular programming language on code collaboration platform, GitHub. TypeScript's ascent is tracked in ...

PHP remains a popular programming language choice among developers, ranking fourth since 2015 in GitHub’s annual Octoverse survey behind JavaScript, Python, and Java, and between fifth place in ...

Support for objects has been grafted onto the language -- you can choose to use objects or simply revert to procedural programming ... is all-important. PHP 5 introduces the mysqli (MySQL Improved) ...

Apart from PHP—which held a 72.5 percent share in 2010 and holds a 78.9 percent share as of today—only one other server-side language ever broke a 10 percent share.

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...