---
title: "PHP is the Best Choice for Long‑Term Business"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-is-the-best-choice-for-long-term-business-edsckkeem
source_url: https://tomasvotruba.com/blog/php-is-the-best-choice-for-long-term-business
type: article
source: "Tomas Votruba"
published: 2024-08-28T13:45:28.654Z
updated: 2024-11-07T15:28:47.930Z
tags: ["webdev", "open-source", "business", "php"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 268
comments: 74
language: en
---

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# PHP is the Best Choice for Long‑Term Business

**[Tomas Votruba](https://daily.dev/sources/tomasvotruba)** · 6 min read · 268 upvotes · 74 comments

## Summary

PHP is highlighted as the best choice for long-term business stability due to its mature ecosystem, time-tested frameworks like Symfony and Laravel, and advanced tools like PHPStan and Rector. The post contrasts PHP's longevity and stability with the rapidly changing JavaScript framework landscape, emphasizing the cost efficiency and reliability that PHP provides for businesses over time.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@feketegy** · 52 upvotes

> The best choice is whatever programming language you are most productive in.
>
>
> Don't learn technologies, but instead learn programming principles.

**@jaqlin** · 10 upvotes

> This is not a competition. I would say people who knows the language and use it often would have a better opinion. But overall this hating game is super annoying. Code with what you are comfortable with and like. Stop hating on something you have no clue about. I code in PHP and am loving it. I don't care if your JS is better or whatever other language you code with or prefer. We are all developers are we not? We solve issues with code and having this hating war is pointless. Use that energy on something useful like saving the planet.

**@albertlacerda** · 7 upvotes

> A very important feature of PHP: No memory leaks. PHP4Ever!

**@ryntab** · 4 upvotes

> All this arguing, when everyone knows a full JS stack is superior.

**@mykytanikitenko42** · 4 upvotes

> I worked for a company that suffered because its main products were written in PHP, which became almost impossible to support and extend.
>
> 1. PHP type system is a total failure, regardless of type annotations. Other dynamic typing languages suffer from the same issue.
> 2. Because of a dynamic, weak typing system, the code doesn't scale. I mean, in terms of growing the codebase, it is almost impossible to support it after it reaches some state regardless amount of e2e, unit and integration tests.
> 3. Whenever I needed to debug something in PHP, 99% of my thoughts were "WTF??" because of the...

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