Given recent events, it’s perhaps less “darkly humorous” than the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor suggests, but the theory remains the same — how many members of your current team would need to suddenly disappear to grind your organization or project to a halt? PHP is too big to fail, especially due to WordPress continuing to rely on it.

The current RFC process, JetBrains writes, “will not change, and language decisions will always be left to the PHP Internals community.” I contributed to the PHP Foundation, and would definitely encourage you to do the same if you can.

The moment when you mention PHP in your new employer’s Slack and you draw out all the PHP haters.

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