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Re:25 Years of PHP by arkitaip on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:49AM (#23476471)
Please do share your PhpStorm journey at some point. I installed it yesterday after trying out Visual Studio Code for the Nth time and again being utterly unimpressed with having to use a GUI fobic editor in 2020. Everything feels clunky and when you start adding more complex plugins things really start to fall apart, like having to use a FTP plugin through the command line.

PhpStorm has its flaws [0] but so far I'm shocked by how much more productive I am with it as compared to Visual Studio Code. It's like having access to a wise dev who can point out flaws with your code, turning the IDE into a learning tool.

[0] The non-native UI of PhpStorm is annoying but not a major issue. I dislike how project centric it is but I like that you can configure almost every setting on a per project level. It's also very expensive for solo devs (edit: actually the monthly cost for individual use seems to be 8.9 EUR which isn't that bad).

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Re:25 Years of PHP by lowercased on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:28PM (#23478953)
The cost will go down in future years as you resubscribe. I think that works on the monthly as well as annual subscriptions. The entire toolbox for me is now... $140/year I think (I use data grip, web storm, phpstorm, IntelliJ all regularly)
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