Original link: The State of PHP 2025 / JetBrains blog.
PHP developers are pretty old (almost hald has more than 10 years of experience).
Most plan to stick to PHP but among those consoderings witching then Go and Python are most common.
Most are on PHP 8 by now (good!!)
Framework wise it is: 1) Laravel, 2) Symfony, 3) CodeIgniter, 4) Yii, 5) CakePHP.
CMS wise it is: 1) WP, 2) Drupal,3) Joomla.
2X as many PHP developers use various print than debugger.
PHPUnit is most used unit test framework.