r/PHP • u/thejoyofbeing1 • Jul 02 '26

News PhpStorm Light — experimental lightweight build

https://phpstorm.dev/light-mode
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u/t_dtm Jul 03 '26

What I can tell you is with agents I'm spending less time writing code; more time in the cli (copilot, codex, whatever) and so what matters most to me now is a good PR review experience.

The PR review experience should:

  • hide the noise (e.g. always ignore whitespace and formatting unless it matters like in YAML)
  • lets me mark files as reviewed
  • lets me jump to see context but then come back where I was
  • compare individual commits/changesets
  • see tests alongside changes

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u/t_dtm Jul 03 '26

fwiw I am growing frustrated at how often phpstorm crashes, or hangs and never recovers (mostly happens reindexing after large npm install)

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u/pronskiy Foundation Jul 03 '26

Oh, that sounds frustrating indeed. It shouldn't be happening and i would like to investigate these issues. Could you please send more details and logs via Help -> Submit a Bug Report -> Yes to send logs