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by slurgfest 5097 days ago
To clarify, "die off" means "stop getting NEW projects," not "everyone spontaneously destroys existing legacy apps." That has never been on the table.

When you say you don't want to use PHP again and want to focus on other languages, you are saying you want PHP to die off.

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I'm certainly no fan of PHP, you're correct, but people will continue to do new things in it for many years to come, because that's what they know.