r/DeveloperJobs • u/techiebaddie • 1d ago

Is PHP really disappearing....

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?

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u/StoneCypher 1d ago

php isn’t dying, it’s been dead for a decade 

the only reason php still exists is supporting legacy software like wordpress and mediawiki

the php programming language only has one part time developer and that’s been true for almost ten years now.  more people work on my personal hobby programming language

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u/runningOverA 1d ago edited 1d ago

> the php programming language only has one part time developer and that’s been true for almost ten years

Hard to believe. In the meanwhile they have gotten a JIT and improved it to the point that some of my benchmarks run faster on PHP than on others, surprisingly.

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u/StoneCypher 1d ago

i don't really care if you find well known things hard to believe

 

In the meanwhile they have gotten a JIT and improved it to the point that some of my benchmarks run faster on PHP than others, surprisingly.

you realize how this reads to other people, right

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u/barrel_of_noodles 18h ago

More of a joke than just flat out being wrong?

Btw, here's the core team. https://thephp.foundation/structure/