There is a common misconception that large open source projects are well-funded. In practice, many rely on a small group of maintainers. The PHP programming language is one of them. Despite being used by 75%+ of the web, PHP only has a few full-time contributors. See https://dri.es/php-foundation-launched #php #opensource

I'm looking at generating images on the fly in response to web requests. I've already created this in Go, but I want to compare it to PHP. Specifically, I'm curious about two things - the tools available for creating images pixel-by-pixel, and the libraries/packages available for assembling images in more abstract ways, like with geometry helper methods.

A Short History of PHP...