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

“I like solving problems — I don’t like programming. It’s tedious,” said the creator of PHP on stage at our DevBeat conference.

Microsoft has not stated why they will no longer support PHP 8.0, but it could be due to the extensive PHP support already existing in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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 ...

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.

Widely-used Python has now overtaken JavaScript as the programming language developers are most likely to have questions about on knowledge-sharing site Stack Overflow.

However, it sounds like PHP will have a mobile app story of some sort, in spite of being the web’s predominant server-side language. What that looks like and how it will be distributed is still ...

Microsoft will stop contributing Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language 8.0 and beyond. Program Manager Dale Hirt made the announcement last week, saying that support for PHP 7.2 ...

Programming language: PHP discusses license change The PHP community plans to switch to the BSD license. The aim is to achieve greater legal clarity and compatibility. PHP 9.0 is set to implement ...

We sit down with Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP, to find out why he hates coding, loves Etsy and is the only Latino Eskimo in California.