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 ...

To ease the pain of PHP programmers without making them abandon the language and years of software development, Facebook developed Hack, a new, PHP-derived language that’s largely compatible ...

PHP maintains an enormous lead in server-side programming languages Despite many infamous quirks, the server-side language seems here to stay.

A senior Google database expert loves the JIT compiler, but others doubt its worth and say it could be hard to maintain.

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 ...

Programming language popularity: Python tightens its grip at the top Python retains its top spot as the most popular language for electrical and electronics engineers.

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default.

As any programmer can tell you, programming will make you swear. But did you know that writing C++ will make you swear considerably more than PHP or Python? Developer Andrew Vos was looking for a ...

Programming languages are like standards; the nice thing about them is that there are so many to choose from. Selecting the best programming languages for back-end, server-side applications often has ...

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++.