Are you sure the webdevs discussing every language and the webdevs spawning MySQL are the same people? I mean, speaking purely about languages, there are lots

Are you sure the webdevs discussing every language and the webdevs spawning MySQL are the same people? I mean, speaking purely about languages, there are lots of webdevs who just love PHP and will never consider an alternative to it, even if you make a persuasive argument that PHP is unsuited to the use case they're writing for. It's the same sort of "like it was 2004" mentality in a slightly different context. I actually wouldn't be surprised if that's what it is, because those are the M and P in the LAMP stack that everyone seems to have started learning at around that time. I don't mean to pick on PHP here; it's just the one I see the most that has this property.