PHP die? Unlikely. Among the people I know who are primarily Ruby devs I find some number who are looking at Haskell, Clojure, and JavaScript, and some may j

PHP die? Unlikely. Among the people I know who are primarily Ruby devs I find some number who are looking at Haskell, Clojure, and JavaScript, and some may just move from Ruby to language X. Among the PHP people I know, some have an interest in Ruby, but few seem inclined to make the switch. Same goes for ASP/.net devs I know. And, overall, I get the sense there are more PHP developers than Rubyists (at least in my part of the world). I gave an intro Ruby class at a recent CodeCamp, and attendance was much lower than similar presentations I've given in previous years. (My intro Haskell presentation had more people.) All this is anecdotal, but PHP seems to work really well for solving enough problems for enough people. We can dismiss these people as lacking sophistication or 1337-ness but apparently they are quite happy, and there's something to be said for that.