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📊 The State of PHP 2025

Interesting report from JetBrains.

  1. More than a half of existing PHP users aren't looking into other languages to switch to.
  2. 72% are using PHP for more than 4 years.
  3. 89% are using PHP8.
  4. VSCode adoption for PHP development is getting lower.
  5. XDebug is used more but var_dump is still the king.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2025/10/state-of-php-2025/

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