> COBOL, PHP, and FORTRAN all lack modern ecosystems (package managers, etc) which hinder them significantly. Its unfortunate that PHP has been clubbed with CO

> COBOL, PHP, and FORTRAN all lack modern ecosystems (package managers, etc) which hinder them significantly. Its unfortunate that PHP has been clubbed with COBOL :-). You may not be aware but PHP has a great package manager called composer. It is intensively used in the PHP community for a long time now. The packages are available at https://packagist.org/ https://packagist.org/ . Packagist houses 300,000+ packages and has received 50 Billion package downloads since 2012 (See https://packagist.org/statistics https://packagist.org/statistics ). PHP's Packagist would actually would easily rank amongst the biggest package management ecosystems among programming languages. PHP is certainly not disappearing. While it is no longer as dominant as it used to be and there is a slow, long term decline, it continues to be very active. Ruby's decline actually is sharper than PHP. Here is an interesting resource https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/08/05/top-20-june-2021/ https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/08/05/top-20-june-2021/ . All statistics need to be taken into perspective but if you look at other proxy activity like GitHub PRs, projects, jobs etc. for PHP, it continues to be very strong. Using the word "disappearing" feels wrong to me. Trends are not irreversible. Over the years, languages have gone down, only to come back up. P.S. Fortran is still going strong also. It is still used extensively in the Scientific Computing community. While, I'm not familiar with the ecosystem there are package managers in Fortran too. I'm not familiar with how good or popular they are though.