I completely understand your situation. GitHub isn't the perfect fit for everyone, especially for those in specialized roles like ML SRE
GitMatcher is primarily aimed at the sourcing stage, where recruiters can find devs based on their actual code contributions. But I agree, it's not a one-size-fits-all solution — it's not meant to replace LinkedIn or fully capture your career.
Just to clarify, GitMatcher is primarily designed for the sourcing stage of recruitment — helping recruiters and hiring managers discover devs based on actual contributions rather than résumés or LinkedIn profiles.
It’s not meant to be the only tool in the hiring process, but rather to help make the first step more data-driven.
I appreciate your thoughts — it helps make GitMatcher better.
>Just to clarify, GitMatcher is primarily designed for the sourcing stage of recruitment — helping recruiters and hiring managers discover devs based on actual contributions rather than résumés or LinkedIn profiles.
Why would Github commits more significant when discovering people than LinkedIn CVS?
One contributes to GH is more-often tech or projects you're interest in, whilst a resume is going to be the alphabet soup of all tech you know.
HN is doing a good job of complaining about all the edge cases where this won't work because most of us don't contribute high-quality, novel work to GH. For example, for me, my recent GH contributions are for an ancient video game in a niche language I've never used elsewhere and my location isn't even exposed. So I won't show up. Boo hoo.
Let me share this—I've worked in a large recruitment company where we were hiring developers from all around the world, and our business model was pretty much the same as Crossover's.
PHP was always the most in-demand tech for backend development, and of course, this includes frameworks like Laravel and Symfony.
So yes, PHP is thriving.
It doesn’t mean that other languages are bad or something that’s ridiculous.
this is just to answer the "PHP is dead" folks
Every language has its place, and they all have their strengths in different contexts.
Honest question, have there been startups which chose PHP recently?
To be even more honest, I never thought that PHP was dying, but I often thought it should not be used for new projects.
Previous job was in a very PHP-oriented company and it was just a Java alternative, the only advantage being the edit and refresh page dev cycle, and being worse in every other way. Perhaps Laravel could have changed my mind, as most devs there hated Laravel because of the magic (some then proceeded to implement control flows with typed exception throwing so maybe not the greatest bunch to discuss such things)
Plenty of "new projects" are really just WordPress deployments, and companies need PHP developers to customize it to fit their business processes. I'd imagine that's the market for 90% of PHP developers being hired today.
My point was that "PHP is thriving" cannot be deduced from the pull stats from docker. As the TLA does.
You now add an anecdotal evidence to underpin the "PHP is thriving". Which also is not a good argument.
That is not to say "haha php ded" - I'm merely and only making the point that in order to show that PHP is doing good, you need good arguments. Not a download stat, that on closer inspection, shows it's not really thriving, nor a story from your last job.
I also believe PHP still has its place. But haven't seen any solid evidence or arguments that this is the case and will remain the case.
PHP is a mature, established language. There is a large ecosystem of developers that actively use it, and large scale projects built on top of it. It is certainly not dead nor dying. It is just mature.
It is probably past its growth phase, nothing wrong with that. There is a very long list of languages that are arguably "better" that will never have a fraction of the success PHP enjoyed, will never see thr growth PHP saw, and will never be as widely used.
I don't even like PHP btw. But the HN crowd has some very warped view of how things actually are when it comes to programming languages and how popular/successful they are.
I'd even argue that starting a new project in php makes more sense today than it did 10-15 years ago. php now has a stable development cycle and mature frameworks and tools.
