The PHP supply chain incident highlights a broader pattern: attacks will keep targeting different languages and frameworks across the stack. In this landscape, deploying to managed runtimes like Copilot Managed Runtime—where mega-tech companies concentrate massive resources on security and maintenance—is objectively safer.

The real risk? Self-proclaimed "intermediate" engineers who insist on custom toolchains and scratch implementations based on personal preference rather than threat modeling. That's where vulnerabilities actually get introduced at scale.