According to this post over on the Hauser & Wenz blog today, Open source scripting development has dropped in the last year.

According to a study conducted by Evans Data Corporation (a company that does a lot of surveys and is generally considered independent) found out that "the number of developers using PHP for development dropped by more than 25% in the last year and the number of developers indicating they would not evaluate or use PHP for future development projects grew by almost 40% in the same time period".

He states that one of the reasons that this is the case is the "inability of these languages to penetrate the enterprise space" - which, if you've spent much time asking around about PHP, seems to be the battle cry for quite a few non-PHP proponents out there. I agree with Christian on this one though:

However, the Evens study does not bother me. Quality will prevail, and as I always say, a good programmer can create great results with any (above-average) editor (and any technology).