They say that PHP is dead, but Laravel was installed 80 million times in the last six months.
https://albertoarena.it/posts/php-is-not-dead-here-is-what-people-shipped/?utm_source=devnull&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=php-is-not-dead-here-is-what-people-shipped
A blog by Alberto ArenaPHP is not dead. Here is what people shipped.Every few months someone writes that PHP is dead. After years in languages that most developers stopped talking about, here is how I check that claim: with installs, release dates and a community that is still shipping.
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I still extensively use it next to all the next and nest js shenanigans :)