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by stephen82 2451 days ago
Those who claim PHP is dead should bookmark this link[1] and pay a visit every week or so for the sake of ranting...and decide how "dead" this language is!

Also not a single language becomes dead, at least in programming; it just becomes obsolete and not used, that's all.

Maybe they need to say the same thing for COBOL that "still runs the world in traditional banking, lots of large scale government systems, insurance and health care". [2]

    [1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all
    [2] https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-is-COBOL-still-being-used-in-2019