Who Will Maintain The Web When PHP's Veterans Retire?
The New Stack, Thursday, April 16th, 2026
A new Perforce report finds PHP's developer base is aging out faster than it's being replenished - and AI-generated code may be making the problem worse, not better.
A new report on the state of the PHP programming language shows that there is an emerging skills gap as fewer early-stage developers have PHP knowledge.
Although PHP continues to be a popular open-source language for web application development, the recently released Perforce 2026 PHP Landscape Report indicates that there is increasingly a struggle for organizations to find and retain skilled PHP talent.