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I have started one side project , and one startup this last 3 month, all in php/symfony, though I have made extensive use of python (and php) in the past (and do a lot of rust on the side) 1. A mature ecosystem: Symfony is really really mature, all use case of a classic website are covered: * easy "admin" generation -> check * easy styling of your forms (a guy already made a 'tailwind' template, now I just do {{ form…
You have invested a lot of time into PHP and can make a living out of it. More power to you! But from my anecdotal experience not many new developers invest the time to learn PHP. At the two universities I've been to, PHP is usually one and done thing. You take one course or just a few lessons with PHP in web development class and then move on to other things.
a 2/3 of my career was python, I 2~3 years of PHP around 2011-2014, and now I'm using it back as I'm finally doing my own company.
And the best part of it ? It's right where I left it, even thought it went from 5.4 to 8 , and from symfony 2 to 5. It feels like leaving your old band from college to find out you all have the same habits, just everyone improved along the road.
Regardless how much I like python, to have been the one needing to own the "python2 to 3 migration" projects of 3 companies, it was not pretty.