Re: Is RPG dying

On 3/9/2012 1:53 AM, John Yeung wrote:

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Joe Pluta<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'll be happy to make a prediction. PHP is on a steady
decline, has been for the last several years.

You cite TIOBE, which shows PHP's trajectory as basically flat from
sometime in 2004 through 2010, with a more noticeable decline only in
the last couple of years. (Contrast with Java, which has been
declining for at least a decade, even after adjusting for the "Google
revision" in 2004.)

Yes, the decline since, say, 2010 has been dramatic. Almost as bad as Visual Basic.

You want to be current, learn C# or Objective-C.

I think what these languages' TIOBE ratings show is that the .NET and
iPhone platforms are enjoying a lot of success right now.

I agree. I wrote about that nearly a year ago:

http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/practical-rpg-the-future-of-rpg.html

You want to be last year's news, learn PHP or better yet
Python. Scripting languages are sooooo 2006. :)

True. Though it sounds like Hans got his PHP job more recently than
that. At least we don't have to worry about RPG ever having been or
ever becoming a fad. :)

People get Perl jobs too. :) But to use the trite observation, if you were building an application today would you use PHP as your first choice? I wouldn't.

Joe