In all fairness, PHP still does dominate the field - it routinely picks up new web developers, is the backing language of some of the largest well-known, simple

In all fairness, PHP still does dominate the field - it routinely picks up new web developers, is the backing language of some of the largest well-known, simple, and open source CMS (WordPress, Magento), and inertia alone places it at ~80% of websites. Is it new/shiny? Nah. But while other languages/frameworks may get the lion's share of attention for reasons that circulate performance, concurrency, and/or scale and large companies do adopt them from time to time... PHP enjoys ridiculous levels of usage. And this is from someone that dislikes and never uses PHP.