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PHP just has too much legacy code still running in it, too many people still using it, too many people still willing to maintain it as a useful standard language, for it to really die at this point.

Other languages I've seen die did so because either there was a proprietary developer backing them who lost interest in maintaining them, or because people just didn't want to use them.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Google pulled the plug on Go or Rust or whatever they're pushing right here without warning tomorrow, simply because they don't have the attention span.  I also wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft came out with another one that turned out to just be a pile of problems touting features that have been standard everywhere else for the past decade.

PHP has its issues, but we can at least trust that it will be there tomorrow, with plenty of support for whatever we need.