To answer the question. It evolved a lot over the last years, it has a thriving community, you will always find answers to your questions, there are a lot of de

To answer the question. It evolved a lot over the last years, it has a thriving community, you will always find answers to your questions, there are a lot of developers and I personally think the community around the core is quite competent at what they're doing with the language. We started one of our biggest projects on PHP 5.6 and Symfony 2.x years ago. The maintenance process and the upgrades were absolutely painless. If you're disciplined, you can probably do this with most of the languages, but we constantly were able to upgrade, so that we are running on PHP 8 now and the latest Symfony version. Of course we had to pull certain parts that started to be too big out of the app, some are now node, some are Symfony, some Java, but the core is running on the latest versions and the evolution of the language and the performance improvements that we had with the upgrades over 9 years are incredible.