---
title: "Announcing the PHP Foundation"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-php-foundation-u3wd3rtva
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/announcing-the-php-foundation
type: article
source: "Laravel News"
published: 2021-11-22T17:10:34.922Z
updated: 2026-03-15T07:55:25.745Z
tags: ["devtools", "general-programming", "php"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 75
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Announcing the PHP Foundation

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 1 min read · 75 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

JetBrains, Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Craft CMS, Private Packagist, Tideways, and PrestaShop are members. Nikita Popov, one of the key contributors, has decided to switch his focus away from PHP to LLVM. The primary task of the Foundation will be to fund developers to work on PHP.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@tcamp** · 0 upvotes

> Would be great to see some core Laravel contributions and ideas make it’s way into php

**@bobbydank** · 0 upvotes

> About time. Don't let PHP die!

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