As much as everybody likes to hate on PHP, it powers a lot of services that are used all around the world - and a lot of internal systems.
With 7.3 it seems as though PHP has finally got to a point where it knows who it is and where it's going - don't get me wrong, it's paid my wage for the last 18 years - but it's also made it very easy to shoot myself in the foot.
With frameworks like Laravel and Symfony about now, I can only see it getting stronger.
(Although I'm moving to more Elixir and Phoenix, I still pick PHP for simple projects, or those that I can't use Elixir on - and obviously maintaining and upgrading existing things)