This little website was made by Carnedd.io.
We are a technical consultancy based in Wales, and PHP is one of the tools in our kit.
We could write a whole academic essay on why PHP is not dead. But we are going to try and summarise it in a couple of paragraphs almost as flippant, but a little more sincere than the statement “PHP is Dead”
One upon a time, PHP was the go to tool for most jobs requiring web development. It’s open source, and has a shallow learning curve so it became hugely popular. However now, there are often more appropriate tools for any given job, which can sometimes be faster and easier. This is probably one of the single biggest reasons PHP’s market share has declined.
However to call PHP dead based upon this is somewhat delusional. Arguably it's out of fashion, but fashion is such an ugly thing anyway.
If a product is fast, secure, scaleable, and at the same time reaches its goals (usually return on investment) over a prolonged period of time, then it is a success; regardless of tech stack. However building such products proves a feat out of reach of most developers; we should know, we have made our careers out of being the cleanup squad.
If you want to be a truly valuable developer, focus your efforts on achieving your products goals and keeping your shiny object syndrome in check.
Often PHP can help you achieve these goals, often it might be best to use Javascript or Python. But is PHP Dead? Nah.