Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source
I really could not justify not doing web stuff in PHP anymore. PHP is THE web language. No, Ruby is not going to take over, and no, python is not going to take over.<p>Those two would have been the main contenders for the space, but they both had their shot and their 15 minutes of fame, and rather than rapidly growing to dominate web development, they nichified.<p>PHP however is being improved, being cleaned up, and most importantly, being speed optimised.<p>PHP is what you can trivially easily outsource - try to do that with python or ruby.<p>This right here is basically the move that is going to cement PHP as the web language. The largest sites are using PHP and are going to stay with PHP. Nothing will take over from PHP. The battle is over.