A gazillion lines of code running on a few million servers has an inertia that takes more than a few years of stagnation to kill, even if newer languages get a

A gazillion lines of code running on a few million servers has an inertia that takes more than a few years of stagnation to kill, even if newer languages get a lot more hype. There's still plenty of Perl in the wild, including in some pretty mission critical deployments, and Perl was declared dead 15 years ago (with PHP being the alleged killer). Likewise, millions of people still work in Java, C, C++, Ruby, and many others, despite there being newer languages with more momentum behind them. PHP will be around for years, even if there were never a new PHP project started from this day forward (but there will be new PHP projects started after today). So, sure, it's dying, but it's not dead yet and likely won't be for decades.