Open Risk<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://phpc.social/@derickr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>derickr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ricmac</span></a></span> </p><p>it could have been perl or maybe something else. In the end does it really matter? Php was the communication tool people chose to write poems like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wordpress</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drupal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drupal</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moodle</span></a> and countless other applications that made the open source web a thriving reality.</p><p>With all the pomp and competense of newer arrivals, whether <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>golang</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/typescript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>typescript</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elixir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elixir</span></a>, they haven't quite made web history yet.</p><p>In the end only impact matters and php did it.</p>