It looks like PHP2Shell proves pretty much that PHP is not dead!
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Not only not dead. It's doing great. I thought I don't really remember such critical issue in PHP runtime ever. And even this might not be as bad as they paint it. https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
Elias TaylorThere isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerabilityMass hysteria, or something.