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 it also ...

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. The ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

PHP‘s creator Rasmus Lerdorf did not intend to create an entirely new programming language. Over 20 years ago, the Danish software engineer was looking for a better way to fix what he described as a ...

Microsoft says it will no longer contribute Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language from PHP version 8.0 and onwards. Microsoft engineer Dale Hirt announced last week that as of PHP ...

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 Hack, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A new year begins, and a new page opens for software development. Companies worldwide have ...

Every year, GitHub releases the Octoverse report, ranking the top technologies favored by its community of millions of software developers. Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018. Here are ...