PHP isn't going through any sort of "revival" stage or surge in growth. Composer is a cheap clone of NPM with horrible performance (don't believe me? wait unti

PHP isn't going through any sort of "revival" stage or surge in growth. Composer is a cheap clone of NPM with horrible performance (don't believe me? wait until you're in production with 20+ composer dependencies). Closures have been around for over 3 years now. Laravel brings nothing new to the table that wasn't already there before it's existence (and dear god I hope no more of the pretentious Ruby "artisan programmer" attitude continues to bleed over). The reason PHP is not dying is because in SPITE of having a sub-par language syntax, inherently flawed security design, and the newer "me-too" bolted-on features you mention, it still continues to be dead simple to install, learn, and get a working proof of concept up and running. Good ideas become proof of concepts become a sold product quickly with PHP.