This is an irritating meme.
Were people saying PHP was dead in 1995, the year it was released? I guess maybe?
But who was suggesting abandoning PHP for Django in 2003, two years before the latter was publicly released? I suppose the person who made this must’ve read that Django development started in 2003 and gone with that; most of these years correspond with when the respective project started.
So, the reason Perl (which remained more popular for web development than PHP or any of these things into the early 2000s) isn’t on the list must be because it actually predates PHP.
But then what is up with Python in 2022?
I also appreciate that you’re supposed to learn Django 19 years before you learn Python.
Symfony, Laravel & other PHP based frameworks are going strong. PHP isn’t going away anytime soon.
PHP is a shit language, but far from dead. There are too many legacy killer apps that are used A LOT and won’t be rewritten in a different language anytime soon. E.g. Wordpress, Mediawiki (The engine behind wikipedia and other wikis), Nextcloud, Typo3, …
Yeah, I’m still amazed as well… not only that, but people still use it 😬.
