Probably the author tried to mean for web development? It is actually surprising how the PHP ecosystem reinvented itself in the last years, improving PHP itself

Probably the author tried to mean for web development? It is actually surprising how the PHP ecosystem reinvented itself in the last years, improving PHP itself and getting good ideas from other ecosystems (i.e ruby and rails) and offering it in a great bundle of robust code and great documentation. But killing python in all domains? It won't happen. Maybe we could see it recovering market share lost for django, ruby on rails or node.js.