JavaScript will never be able to replace PHP!!!

OK I'm outta here!

Pascal will never be able to replace Algol!!!

It will. In time, it will 😉

The amount of legacy pre Php7 code there is in the wild, I don't think PHP can replace PHP.

Yeah you are right in a way. I think JS stuff is just too awesome, It will never be able to match the shitstorm wordpress brought.

I think it already can. With affront end framework and a nodeJS backend that site would be 100% Javascript.

You can say it will never replace it, thats probably true. But it is already able to replace it.

For those who are saying that JS is already replacing PHP, can you give some references?

I know there are more JS jobs, repositories, and people are enthusiastic about it but what about the real world? How much market share it has (excluding frontend)?

@nmunro Bull's eye!

Because it's client side while PHP is server side? So yes you are right.

And no I don't think Node will ever replace PHP even though I much prefer to work with it.

@mohammed I was at a company just last week who were migrating their stack. No new apps were going to be written in PHP and all new apps were to be NodeJS, in fact as recruiters call me, more and more I'm being asked if I have NodeJS experience, I've even performed NodeJS based technical tests as interview prerequisites. It's happening, although in an evolutionary way, not revolutionary way.