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A certain kind of developer loves to hate on PHP. They are really going to hate where PHP’s custodians are taking it next. When it comes to mobile apps, Gutmans sides with the likes of JavaScript creator Brendan Eich in a firmly held belief that the web and web languages will eventually catch up and win out over native stacks. But, he hinted to me, PHP and Zend will be providing client-side app-enabling tools. Gutmans declined to comment further, saying he would only announce the full details at Zend’s conference in late October. However, it sounds like PHP will have a mobile app story of some sort, in spite of being the web’s predominant server-side language.

Get used to it: PHP will be with us forever...