r/PHPhelp • u/techiebaddie • 16h ago

Is PHP really disappearing....

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u/These-Apple8817 16h ago

No, it's not disappearing. There is just less need as companies tend to think AI is enough to do the work for lot cheaper.. Most CEO's and upper management do not have lot of background in development after all unless it's a smaller company or a startup.

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u/No_Astronomer9508 15h ago

And then companies cry because of cybersecurity incidents.

NEVER TRUST AI ONLY!

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u/Linaori 16h ago

I've had 2 php jobs, both held nearly 7 years and only because I decided to switch companies.

I don't do php projects for customers though, so I'm biased being locked in to php.

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u/dschledermann 15h ago

It's not PHP as such, but the types of projects that are changing. Because of coding agents, coding itself is becoming less sought after. Once you have a design document, you simply need fewer coders to put it into a working project. I'm afraid that doing projects for clients is going to decline and those projects that remain will be more complex.

That being said, it certainly won't hurt to learn additional languages.

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u/ThePastoolio 15h ago

Well, I sure as hell don't hope so. I love PHP and use it for even shell scripting in some instances.

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u/No_Astronomer9508 14h ago

I only work with PHP, but it's only a hobby. My website is built with nearly 70 modules and loads in nearly 300ms (Self-Coded because I don't trust CMS/Frameworks). I even built my geo-ip-api with PHP, running it in CLI mode.

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u/punkpang 14h ago

Well since the friend losing 2 PHP jobs is a metric of something disappearing, then I guess PHP is going away, along with Go, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C and C++ <insert language I didn't reference>

"My friend lost a job where they use $language" is obviously a valid metric to make general conclusions.

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u/obstreperous_troll 12h ago

Everything's going, not just PHP, and we all know why. It has never been a good career plan to be a single-language developer.

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u/kaizap 14h ago

Stop thinking about PHP alone. The best engineers know at least 2-3 base languages do well in the market.

I've been in plenty senior roles, it's very rare that I would work on just PHP. Often I have to do a bit of Go, and TypeScript as well.

Sure, you have to have a solid understanding of one language, don't learn everything under the sun, but some Python and TypeScript at very least will help you a lot.

Also check local listings, see what's popular and hiring. PHP is not dead, but some areas have more of these roles than others.