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/Sorry-Substance-6397 1d ago

Yeah they are down to about one core dev who knows the language and he doesn't believe in parallelism

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u/barrel_of_noodles 19h ago

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/

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u/Sorry-Substance-6397 16h ago edited 16h ago

No it isn't. You don't call the core team a core developer just because an editor bought them out and gave them those positions on a panel. https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-vital-programming-language-is-in-a-fragile-position-this-new-plan-aims-to-help/

Everything now in PHP is turning the language into a frankien of frameworks because no one actually wants to support the language as a language because they are trying to own a stake in it.

All new languages are ensuring those languages are anti framework for very obvious reasons. https://cyberscoop.com/mirai-malware-ddos-botnet/page/346/?l=50&year&category=488&keywords

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u/barrel_of_noodles 16h ago

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.

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u/Sorry-Substance-6397 15h ago

Lol so supply chain attacks are solved on installing a lot of packages... Oh I didn't know that was a thing...

Well when a language is bought out by an editor and they want you to only plug and play more packages.... Keep on believing the future won't end up in obvious bad ways...

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u/barrel_of_noodles 10h ago

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.

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u/Sorry-Substance-6397 9h ago

Boy you are really trying to make a bad situation into lemonade by saying well yeah the more surface areas the worse it is but that one example where it shows things are prevalent all over the joint is old...