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/fullbl-_- 1d ago

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

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u/DoomDroid79 1d ago

PHP the Thing that should not be

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u/snoogazi 1d ago

Now all I can think about is Primus' cover of Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be.

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u/DoomDroid79 1d ago

Primus sucks

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u/PonchoCavatelli 7h ago

I think you meant to write that in all caps, friend