> As the businesses still using it either mature, evolve, or fail, the need for PHP will begin to dry up.

People have been calling for PHP's death, or saying PHP is a dying language, for as long as the internet has been around.

It's always the same arguments, that $newHipLanguage will replace it.

Then you actually do some research and understand just how much of the internet is still powered by PHP and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.

So, I'm still waiting for PHP's death. Or for this same predictable comment in 2030.