Comment on How is the security level of PHP in 2023?
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 8 months ago
PHP makes up like 80% of all websites worldwide.
I must is missed the security concerns, I didn’t start programming in PHP until 2003.
Comment on How is the security level of PHP in 2023?
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 8 months ago
PHP makes up like 80% of all websites worldwide.
I must is missed the security concerns, I didn’t start programming in PHP until 2003.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 months ago
That statistic is ridiculous and I wish people would stop quoting it because it’s not doing anybody any favors. In particular or completely discredits PHP from any chance of claiming some reasonable numbers.
The survey’s methodology is full of holes and biases and completely fails to account for all kinds of factors, such as the fact that most websites out there don’t have “powered by” headers (it’s not a thing for most of the languages they claim to have detected; and how do you detect “static files”?), or that modern cloud infrastructure is distributed and cannot be evaluated like the monolithic on-premise servers of decades ago.
If you’re still not convinced I give you two things to consider: