On: 25 Years of PHP

[dpcx]

But Movable Type was written (mostly) in Perl... I'm not sure I see how Movable Type affects PHP all that much, but maybe I'm missing something.

[Mediterraneo10 → dpcx]

Movable Type was popular, but a change in its licensing terms led to people leaving it in droves for Wordpress which had a similar interface and approach. Fast forward to 2020, and Wordpress installations reportedly make up the majority of PHP use in the world.

[dpcx → Mediterraneo10]

If I'm reading that correctly, the license change happened in 2013... Well after Wordpress was already highly established as the dominant player.

[Mediterraneo10 → dpcx]

No, the Movable Type license change that drove massive migration to Wordpress happened in 2004.