PHP took the market away from Perl from the late 90s onward as it got more features. There were still tons of Perl CGI scripts but PHP was miles easier, and it

PHP took the market away from Perl from the late 90s onward as it got more features. There were still tons of Perl CGI scripts but PHP was miles easier, and it eclipsed Perl in adoption many times over. By the mid 2000s, a very large site written in Perl was oddly antiquated (the P in "LAMP" changed from Perl to PHP) PHP was basically the server-side JavaScript of its time. But as programming trends changed, and more and more went "client-side", more JS frameworks popped up, until Node appeared, and then there was no need to learn two languages to make a web app. Python and Ruby had their time, but neither were as dominant as PHP was or JS became.