Moving Php Open Source Forward
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JetBrains announces sponsorship of key PHP open-source projects and maintainers, sparking discussion about the company's commitment to the PHP community and comparisons with other development tools.
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They are bootstrapped, doing $400M+ revenue, and selling to one of the hardest segments (developers who are notoriously frugal).
But they don't sell to developers, they sell to suits high in the food chain of a corporation.
Some tools I like are not free, and I buy licenses by myself.
... and haven't let it expire since.
Visual Studio still would still be kept on mantainance mode for 10 to 20 years because of there's so much critical enterprise infrastructure that depends on it.
Edit: I misread the non-commercial bit. Regardless, I making it opt-in by default is scummy, imho.
If you have a subscription then it’s opt-in.
That seems perfectly reasonable.
Again, this is for the people using JetBrains IDEs for _free_. You can pay for a subscription and it becomes opt-in. I think it's completely reasonable for it to be opt-out or even required for the free product. Giving non-paying people a choice is a step above what I feel they are required to do (morally, ethically, etc).
Not sure what I'm missing with spacemacs + LSP compared to vscode. (Spac)emacs does not train on my data. I don't pay for spacemacs.
Anyway, you should use vim instead.
VSCode/VSCodium with focused extension fly compared to any Intellij IDE.
Vscode and intelephense handled the same project without breaking a sweat.
I've had much better experience with IntelliJ. No matter the maven or gradle project I've thrown at it, it just works.
What operating system are you using?
I'd rather customize vscode with extensions.
The Raku language community has put a lot of effort into IntelliJ support, initially the Comma plugin was supported by Edument and then it was passed to the Raku Community where it is actively supported … now renamed Raku IntelliJ Plugin (RIP - geddit?)
Tools like the Grammar inspector and debugger fit well in the IntelliJ UI model.
https://raku.org/nav/1/tools
I like this! Keeps the community engaged.
Looking at their list, seems solid. I have high expectations for Mago specially. Currently, PHP static analyzers are good/great. But speed can be an issue in large codebases:
1) Saif Eddin Gmati, who’s building a very promising new linter and static analyzer for PHP in Rust: Mago.
2) Markus Staab, who’s involved in tons of existing open-source projects like PHPStan, Rector, and PHPUnit.
3) Kyrian Obikwelu, who’s actively exploring AI and MCP possibilities in PHP.
4) Sjon Hortensius, who’s responsible for 3v4l.org, an online shell for PHP that’s very popular within the PHP community.
+1 spot open