The list of companies that make up the foundation founders is quite surprising. For as big as PHP was in PHP4 days now the only “big name” I recognize is Attomatic. There’s some companies with their PHP frameworks and a company with their PHP IDE but it seems quite anticlimatic.
I was surprised to see Facebook absent from that list (given that they have 10MLoC in PHP / Hack and their own open-source PHP JIT) and it makes me wonder if this is an ‘everyone but Facebook’ industry group to try to counterbalance Facebook in the PHP ecosystem.
I fully expect PHP, Python and Ruby to have similar organizations for the long term. Once a language reaches a certain critical mass, its ecosystem will outlive any one person.
The list of companies that make up the foundation founders is quite surprising. For as big as PHP was in PHP4 days now the only “big name” I recognize is Attomatic. There’s some companies with their PHP frameworks and a company with their PHP IDE but it seems quite anticlimatic.
I was surprised to see Facebook absent from that list (given that they have 10MLoC in PHP / Hack and their own open-source PHP JIT) and it makes me wonder if this is an ‘everyone but Facebook’ industry group to try to counterbalance Facebook in the PHP ecosystem.
No WikiMedia Foundation either.
I fully expect PHP, Python and Ruby to have similar organizations for the long term. Once a language reaches a certain critical mass, its ecosystem will outlive any one person.