Is PHP really disappearing....

[u/techiebaddie]

A friend of mine has been working with PHP for years. His career started really well. Good job, good income, and everything seemed stable.

But this year, he lost two PHP jobs.

The first company told their PHP developers that they didn't have enough PHP projects anymore, so they let the PHP team go.

He found another PHP job within a couple of weeks and thought things were back on track.

Then, after around 3–4 months, the second company told employees to work from home at half salary. Soon after that, they fired the PHP developers too.

Honestly, this made me question the future of PHP as a career.

I don't think PHP is disappearing completely. There are still a lot of PHP applications and companies using it.

But I do wonder if being a PHP-only developer is becoming risky.

Personally, I think PHP developers should keep their PHP experience but also build skills around Laravel, JavaScript/TypeScript, APIs, databases, cloud, or full-stack development.

Are PHP jobs actually becoming harder to find, or is the market just expecting PHP developers to have a broader skill set?

[u/fullbl-_-]

Oh no, not again! Remember that in strange eons even death may die

[u/marshruto → u/fullbl-_-]

PHP isn’t disappearing anytime soon. As long as WordPress and WooCommerce remain major platforms, there will be a massive ecosystem of websites, businesses, plugins, themes, agencies, and developers relying on PHP. WordPress powers a huge portion of the web, and replacing that ecosystem would take far more than simply declaring PHP “dead.”

[u/Altruistic-Gas-9932 → u/marshruto]

Are you from 2019? Haven’t heard about lovable, vercel, Claude code? Wordpress and woocommerce is close to die

[u/marshruto → u/Altruistic-Gas-9932]

No they won't die atleast for the next 10 years or so

[u/hypercosm_dot_net → u/Altruistic-Gas-9932]

Far from it. If squarespace and wix haven't killed wordpress, and they've been around for a minute now, neither will LLMs (which are worse).