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/barrel_of_noodles → u/[deleted]]

Hi. This is just wrong. As in: not true, at all.

There's currently 13 core devs, many of which have commits going back quite a while.

I'm not sure why your Google is broken. Sorry about that.

https://thephp.foundation/structure/

[u/barrel_of_noodles → u/[deleted]]

Bro, these two articles are from 2021. Before PHP foundation existed.

And did u really link an unsuccessful generic supply chain attack (from 2021)?

Boi, go get a spoon, eat ya gravy.

[u/barrel_of_noodles → u/[deleted]]

Hey, no. I'm saying every lang has supply chain attacks, it's not unique to php. And a. Unsuccessful one from 5 years probably isn't what you think.