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as a PHP developer, PhpStorm is fantastic, and knowing that JetBrains hired one of the most active and prominent PHP Core developers to let him continue working on the language is fantastic. Happy to pay for these apps because of that.



It's not exactly clear to me why they hired Nikita Popov, but I'm glad he gets such free rein. I was involved with PHP runtime development in the beginning of the 2010s and saw as he, as a teenager in high-school, progressed so quickly from fixing some bugs to being arguably the person most advancing the language and the implementation (the other being Zeev, who's been around forever, but he's more focused on the implementation).


I second this. I've become insanely more productive with PhpStorm. Well worth the money.


Wish I could figure out how to set up Xdebug properly on MacOs. Most PHPStorm and Xdebug tutorials are geared for Vagrant set ups but not straight forward localhost on main machine.




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