They also are the rare example of a company that actually left russia (even more impressive because the company was largely russian) unlike western and eastern companies that published some press releases, but still continue to work and collaborate with russia. Even the "privacy first" Apple continues to remove any app the russian government asks and pays millions in fines.
Both Saif and Markus are excellent choices for sponsorships. Kudos to whoever picked them. It’s a shame Juliette is losing hers, she’s also a really valued member of the PHP community and has been for a long time.
It’s great to see JetBrains giving back like this …
The Raku language community has put a lot of effort into IntelliJ support, initially the Comma plugin was supported by Edument and then it was passed to the Raku Community where it is actively supported … now renamed Raku IntelliJ Plugin (RIP - geddit?)
Tools like the Grammar inspector and debugger fit well in the IntelliJ UI model.
> Our strategy from now on is to sponsor around five open-source projects and maintainers per year. Each year we’ll select new projects to diversify our support.
I like this! Keeps the community engaged.
Looking at their list, seems solid. I have high expectations for Mago specially. Currently, PHP static analyzers are good/great. But speed can be an issue in large codebases:
1) Saif Eddin Gmati, who’s building a very promising new linter and static analyzer for PHP in Rust: Mago.
2) Markus Staab, who’s involved in tons of existing open-source projects like PHPStan, Rector, and PHPUnit.
3) Kyrian Obikwelu, who’s actively exploring AI and MCP possibilities in PHP.
4) Sjon Hortensius, who’s responsible for 3v4l.org, an online shell for PHP that’s very popular within the PHP community.
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The Raku language community has put a lot of effort into IntelliJ support, initially the Comma plugin was supported by Edument and then it was passed to the Raku Community where it is actively supported … now renamed Raku IntelliJ Plugin (RIP - geddit?)
Tools like the Grammar inspector and debugger fit well in the IntelliJ UI model.
https://raku.org/nav/1/tools
I'd rather customize vscode with extensions.
I like this! Keeps the community engaged.
Looking at their list, seems solid. I have high expectations for Mago specially. Currently, PHP static analyzers are good/great. But speed can be an issue in large codebases:
1) Saif Eddin Gmati, who’s building a very promising new linter and static analyzer for PHP in Rust: Mago.
2) Markus Staab, who’s involved in tons of existing open-source projects like PHPStan, Rector, and PHPUnit.
3) Kyrian Obikwelu, who’s actively exploring AI and MCP possibilities in PHP.
4) Sjon Hortensius, who’s responsible for 3v4l.org, an online shell for PHP that’s very popular within the PHP community.
+1 spot open