Lonely Programmer

PHP was created as a dead language

So if I use a dead language does that make me some sort of necromancer?

PHP is that guy who doesn’t talk and minds his business, many come, compete and go but he doesn’t care since he knows he is the beast.

PHP got popular because PHP was free when everyone else was trying to sell their server technology. As such, PHP hosting was cheaper, and that made it more popular. Now, PHP is popular because PHP was popular.
It’s probably going to continute to have a 70%+ market share until people stop just selling everyone wordpresses because that’s all they know how to build.