[pavlik_enemy]

It’s not dead but there’s no point in learning it if you don’t know it already. Pretty much every language used for web development is better than PHP. Python is more consistent and has better support for async code. JavaScript can be used on backend, web and mobile, Java and C# are faster and have better typing

[thinkindie]

Javascript better than PHP - I doubt. There are several solution for having Node.js style PHP too and they are doing great, see reactphp and alike