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2014 07:46:47 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Rami Kayyali's Blog: LAMP's
Standing Still]]> Something's mentioned in this entry on Rami
Kayyali's blog that no one in a community wants to hear - he
gets the feeling that the PHP community is shrinking.  The PHP
community is shrinking by the day, at least that's how I feel. I
consider the community to consist of the extremely enthusiastic
evangelists, those who make stuff instead of benchmarking them.
We have a growing base of young developers who only need a small
portion of PHP's capabilities and a shrinking base of developers
who want to make things happen. We need chaos, not community
rules. We need a CPAN, not a PEAR, a Smarty or a Zend Framework;
these projects give me a feeling of being the "chosen" ones.  He
preceeds this with a bit about his history with PHP, like how he
used to feel when major updates were made. But somewhere along
the line it got to be about something else - the debates between
which