[RobertWHurst]

I think that's a bit silly to say. We don't know how the web would have evolved without these languages, but it's pretty evident that modern web development has had some sizable influences on programming in general, and it wouldn't have happened without it's humble beginnings.

I also suggest both languages have evolved quite a bit since. Between these, though, I think modern JS has had the most impact. This can mostly be attributed to the node community, with a great deal of insights from ruby.

Things like async patterns and quality package management have changed our standards for what we expect out of modern languages, despite the coerson based parlor tricks chuckled at by those who don't use the language.

PHP, on the other hand, is still a templating language that lives and dies in a request response cycle.

[xnx]

The evolution of JavaScript has been astounding. It's just a shame we didn't begin from a slightly better starting point.