To be fair, don&#x27;t just down vote the parent comment because your don&#x27;t like someone bashing php; it&#x27;s a pretty reasonable question to ask.<p>Most people don&#x27;t actually <i>know</i> that php powers such a large portion of the internet, because globally there&#x27;s waning interest in php (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiobe.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;content&#x2F;paperinfo&#x2F;tpci&#x2F;PHP.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiobe.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;content&#x2F;paperinfo&#x2F;tpci&#x2F;PHP.ht...</a>) and it&#x27;s generally dreaded by developers (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;developer-survey-2015#techSuper-dreaded" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;developer-survey-2015#tech...</a>).<p>In all seriousness, why <i>would</i> you get into php at this point?<p>Do you want to go and work for Wordpress.com? (I mean, heck, they&#x27;re building node sites now (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-story-behind-the-new-wordpress-com&#x2F;)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-story-behind-...</a>).<p>Are there really that many php jobs floating around?<p>I&#x27;m certainly not seeing it.<p>There are a tonne of 1-click-wordpress-for-$10 companies out there, making $10 websites using it... sure, and certainly, plenty of people use it as a blog; but is there really a professional path for a php developer?<p>There&#x27;s no where near the interest in it that there is in engineers using say, java or C#, or heck, even javascript.<p>I mean, I&#x27;m totally down with looking up composer and php classes if you&#x27;re curious to see what &#x27;modern&#x27; php is like, but I certainly couldn&#x27;t come up with a good reason to do it other than curiosity.