The State of Developer Ecosystem 2019 is a report released from Jetbrains to investigate the habits of software developers across most known technologies.

I carefully read the report from my personally point of view as PHP developer. The report, as many others every year, show us just some statistics, it’s not the source of truth.

I firmly believe that PHP 7 opened the doors for PHP to drive more adoption in enterprise environments. Only one thing is missing: “Ecosystem”.

That’s why Laravel is experimenting a huge adoption in PHP world. Its ecosystem give the right foundation to build business critical application knowing that you will have available the right tools to grow, keeping your business safe.

Adoption

PHP is used regularly from 30% of developers. I think it’s really really good. Building a career around PHP could be a really good idea, and it can be quite profitable since PHP is so wide spread.

Developer Tools

Some indexes suggested me that PHP developers do not automate their work too much compared to developers in other technologies.

34% of us use pure PHP than a template engine like Twig, Blade, etc. is not so good. It means a lot of time lost in technical complications.

Most PHP developers don’t use anything for profiling or measuring performance. The report says.

Many of us deliver new code changes almost every day. If we’re waiting for users to report errors or bottlenecks, we’re effectively outsourcing bug discovery to users. Users don’t reports bugs, they eventually just stop using your app.

That's why applications that are critical for the health of your business simply can't be monitored manually. Manual monitoring process used by most developers today is costly, time-consuming, and leaves a huge margin for error.

The best IDE is PHPStorm. I’m one of millions of happy PHPstorm’s customers and I really believe that Jetbrains deserve this result.

Good PHP 7 usage

A lot of developers have migrated from PHP 5.x versions to the newer 7.x ones. In a year, the share of PHP 5 has plummeted from 29% to only 14%.

As I say above PHP-7 provide the right foundation to support PHP adoption in more enterprise environments.

Conclusion

Thanks to PHP-7, Laravel, Jetbrain itself, PHP developers can rethink to their business as “enterprise ready” but they need to understand that it’s not a technology problem. It’s more about mindset.

My product fits into this scenario to help PHP developers grow their business with the best strategy known: Create a meaningful experience for their customers!

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