I don’t know if it’s due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012…). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.
Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?
Youre interpreting those statistics wrong. Those statistics refer to website using server side rendering, not all websites in the world. So the correct statement would be that 80% of server side programming languages used for websites is written in PHP.