Perforce's 2026 PHP Landscape Report Highlights a Growing Skills Gap with PHP

Perforce Software, the modern DevOps Tech Stack that ensures AI governance, announced the release of the 2026 PHP Landscape ...
ZDNet

Programming language PHP 8 is out: This new JIT compiler points to better performance

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...
The Next Web

Why PHP continues to be a popular but divisive programming language

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...
Bleeping Computer

PHP Becomes First Programming Language to Add Modern Cryptography Library in Its Core

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...
InfoWorld

Facebook’s Hack language builds on PHP

It seems Facebook wasn’t satisfied with merely building a virtual machine for PHP, HHVM, which compiles that language to C++ for faster execution. Facebook has now gone ahead and made a full-blown ...
InfoWorld

PHP gets its own formal language specification

Although the PHP scripting language has been around since 1995 and is a staple of Web development, it does not actually have a formal language specification — just extensive user documentation. But ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft to discontinue Windows builds of PHP programming language

Builds will stop with version 8.0 and beyond, and support for PHP 7.2 will end in November. Microsoft will stop contributing Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language 8.0 and beyond.