As long as a language can still run, it's not dead. It might just be napping. Anecdote: when I saw that Python 2.x was reaching end of support, the contrarian

As long as a language can still run, it's not dead. It might just be napping. Anecdote: when I saw that Python 2.x was reaching end of support, the contrarian in me thought, "finally it'll be stable enough to use"