Moving PHP open source forward

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2025/10/moving-php-open-source-forward/

31•mikece•1h ago

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alberth•1h ago

I have a lot of respect for JetBrains.

They are bootstrapped, doing $400M+ revenue, and selling to one of the hardest segments (developers who are notoriously frugal).

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs•20m ago

>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.

hu3•3m ago

I know many developers who buy Jetbrains licenses from their own pockets.

dreadnip•1h ago

Both Saif and Markus are excellent choices for sponsorships. Kudos to whoever picked them. It’s a shame Juliette is losing hers, she’s also a really valued member of the PHP community and has been for a long time.

librasteve•1h ago

It’s great to see JetBrains giving back like this …

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

sschueller•1h ago

That's nice, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440117 (also from today) isn't very nice.

archerx•51m ago

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times...

cess11•41m ago

They announced a price hike recently, and now this. I might not feel like renewing my license in a few months, actually.

charlie0•1m ago

I find our community's take on paying for IDEs interesting. We're now willing to pay 20, 100, 200 USD a month for AI subscriptions, but wince at paying that for IDEs that clearly add value and also save time. I'm also frugal, but Jetbrain IDEs have been easily one of the best investments I've made for dev tools.

zb3•58m ago

I'd sooner pay for vscode, it's much faster even though it's an electron app. Good job Microsoft (rare)!

askonomm•49m ago

VSCode has started to aggressively force its AI slop stuff down my throat, which has turned me off from using it. JetBrains, thus far, is much less aggressive with its AI offerings. And while yes, everything can be turned off, just like all the adware and spyware in Microsoft Windows can be turned off, I'm just not interested in using a product whose defaults are _this_ anti-consumer.

zb3•45m ago

Can't really agree since I use.. Gemini Code Assist there (obviously due to its generous free quota). GitHub copilot - at least in my case - needed to be manually configured, so I'm not sure which feature are you referring to.

askonomm•29m ago

I'm referring to NOT wanting AI in my code editor, nor any dialogs, sidebars, popups or ads of any kind for AI offerings.

nunodonato•41m ago

VSCode doesnt even come close to the features PHPStorm provides. It's fine if you prefer it, but the comparison is totally unbalanced.

Y-bar•29m ago

100% in agreement, but then again I often wish I could strip out like 60% of things in PHP Storm such as the database engine, AI stuff, docker integration, VCS client, or code-with-me which I never use and take up valuable interface and resources. I prefer specialised apps such as Sequel Ace, GitHub Desktop, Docker Desktop and such.

jcurtis•15m ago

Most of the things you listed are plugins which can be disabled in the plugin settings - certainly databases, docker & code-with-me.

wiseowise•4m ago

OP specifically mentioned performance ("faster").

cess11•40m ago

You're comparing apples and cars, making your comment kind of hard to interpret.

Anyway, you should use vim instead.

cm-t•30m ago

Let's improve "Open source". Not Open-sourcing our product...

I'd rather customize vscode with extensions.

wiseowise•5m ago

And here I thought they're finally releasing community edition of PhpStorm.

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