[o1y32]

The fact that there are new and exciting things happening has nothing to do with whether the language is becoming less popular/relevant/adopted. Almost any index or ranking for programming languages you can find, TIOBE, stackoverflow survey and even Google Trends show that interest in php has been declining and not coming back. That is just the reality, and nobody is going to care if some part of the language or ecosystem improves.

[edmundsauto]

Is that because its relative share is declining or because the absolute number is declining? The former indicates they are capturing as much of the new growth in devs, the latter there is an approaching problem.

[o1y32]

Read my comment again.