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PHP Development

Unfashionable, extremely well understood.

PHP runs a large share of the web and has changed substantially in recent years. Modern versions have proper type declarations, enums, readonly properties, attributes and a just-in-time compiler, and the language now enforces far more at compile time than its reputation suggests.

Its operational characteristics suit business applications well. The shared-nothing request model makes horizontal scaling straightforward and removes whole classes of memory-leak and shared-state bugs, because each request starts clean.

Why we use it

Predictability. Hosting is available everywhere and inexpensive, upgrade paths are well documented, security support windows are long and clearly published, and there are more developers who can maintain a PHP application than almost any alternative — which matters more for a long-lived business system than language aesthetics.

Where it is the wrong tool we say so: long-running socket servers, heavy numerical computation and real-time streaming are better served elsewhere, and we will pair PHP with another runtime for those rather than force it.

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