The following article doesn’t mention Ruby on Rails but I keep hearing that touted by many developers as the new rage. A lot of programmers like the concept of less code.

However, EDC’s survey has found PHP, along with scripting cousins Perl and Python, is seeing drastically reduced adoption among developers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Use of PHP has dropped by a quarter in EMEA during the last 12 months to just under 28 per cent while 40 per cent of developers said they have no plans to evaluate or use PHP.

I don’t think PHP is going anywhere any time soon. Perl didn’t go away with the surge in PHP interest.