[alkonaut]

And extremely narrow in scope, being all web centric.

And what's with the who's who of poorly designed technologies? if I had to pick a list of languages and technologies with the most annoying design deficiencies, it would be php, js, mysql, vbscript, asp. Web development still is a stinking pile of languages, but at least classic asp/vbscript and most php is gone, right?

[hvs]

PHP isn't even remotely gone. Between one of the largest sites in the world (Facebook) and the most popular blogging platform (Wordpress) not to mention a countless number of little (and not so little) sites, PHP is stronger than ever.

If anything, I expect PHP's arc to look more like JavaScript than Perl.

[computerslol]

http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag...

As a .net developer I am pretty happy ASP.net is doing so well. PHP however, is still king.

[spoiler]

PHP is not gone, yet; quite unfortunately.