[mgkimsal]

I'm with you. 10 years ago I was doing moderate 'shell scripting' type stuff in PHP - if I needed to scan a dir, parse some files, etc. PHP seems usually far more useful than trying to shoehorn the problem in to bash. And... writing shell scripts in Java ain't ever going to be a thing.

[pdimitar]

For general scripting where bash is a poor fit PHP and Ruby remain pretty solid to this day and I like them for that.

For web development though, not really. Elixir is much better there and I am saying this as a guy who had 8 years with Java and 6.5 years with Ruby on Rails (and consulted and helped 10+ PHP and JS projects in the meantime).