

PHP Web Frameworks - Roman Pronskiy
12 snips Jun 6, 2025
Roman Pronskiy, Executive Director of The PHP Foundation and a key figure at JetBrains, shares insights from his extensive journey through the PHP landscape. He discusses the evolution of PHP, contrasting its frameworks like Laravel and Symfony with others like Django. Pronskiy highlights the critical role of the PHP Foundation in improving the open-source ecosystem and advocates for corporate contribution to sustain PHP's future. He also emphasizes marketing strategies, challenges outdated perceptions, and underscores the importance of community learning resources.
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Roman's PHP Beginning
- Roman Pronskiy started programming with Turbo Pascal in high school and discovered PHP while needing to build a conference website at university.
- He was amazed by how easy PHP made creating websites and stuck with it for 15 years despite also working with Python, JavaScript, and Salesforce development.
PHP's Evolving Yet Simple Joy
- PHP has maintained its ease of use and joy for quick development despite evolving requirements.
- Modern PHP benefits from a rich ecosystem of high-quality packages making development productive and enjoyable.
PHP's Simple Serverless Model
- PHP's request model is simple: serve request then shut down, which simplifies deployment and development.
- This 'serverless by design' shared-nothing architecture contrasts with always-running Node.js servers, keeping PHP deployments straightforward.