PHP’s popularity with developers has been slowly waning over the years in favor of newer technologies, like Rust, Python, and JavaScript. Based on the most recent Stack Overflow survey in 2020, Python was the most used language according to 70% of its respondents, while PHP was chosen by 25%. However, market reports from w3techs.com tell a different story, showing that nearly 78% of all websites today run PHP. Much of PHP’s mainstay can be attributed to Wordpress and Shopify, which constitute around 45% of all websites today.