Posts tagged with ecosystem
Brendt shares fresh Packagist-based PHP version stats for July 2026: PHP 8.4 is now the most-used version, while PHP 8.5 reached 16% adoption after six months. He also notes that package minimum requirements still lag behind, with relatively few popular packages requiring a version that still gets active bugfix support.
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An interesting take on how AI changes the build-versus-buy decision for packages. Shared problems can often be generated, while hard, external, or opinionated problems still benefit from well-maintained packages.
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The open question, then, is not whether industrial software will dominate, but what that dominance does to the surrounding ecosystem.
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Some very cool numbers on the PHP ecosystem, gathered by Jean-François Lépin.
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Here are the result on the survey on the Laravel ecosystem run by Tobias Petry.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
– stateoflaravel.com - submitted by Tobias Petry
The emerged ecosystem around Laravel is huge and new trends are popping up all the time. This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.
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JetBrains ran their yearly survey on all the things that devs like and use. Here are the results for the PHP ecosystems
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Laravel celebrated its 10th anniversary a few weeks ago. Today it is the most popular PHP framework used by thousands of developers every day. The emerged ecosystem around Laravel is huge and new trends are popping up all the time. This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
Packages play a big role in the Laravel scene. How big and which packages? Medium user Džuris took the data from the Packagist.org API and filtered out the Laravel packages.
Read more [medium.com]
Jordi Boggiano researched which files are common in PHP packages.
I queried GitHub's API for the file listing (only the root directory) of all PHP packages listed on packagist.org.https://seld.be/notes/common-files-in-php-packagesWhat this let me do is look at what files are commonly present (and not), which is quite interesting to get a picture of the whole ecosystem.
In total, this includes file listings from 78'992 packages (no GitHub API was harmed in the making of this blog post though). And here are a few interesting things that surfaced:
