>>Many of us went over to PHP which is vibrant, keeps getting faster and better and is as practical as Perl was and hasn’t stalled.

Who uses php these days?

I haven't heard any one start a new php project in years. Ruby seems to have gone the same way.

Python seems to have won the backend game, which actually makes sense as Python today is bloated like how Perl was once. And these days it feels like Perl with tab indentation. No wonder it fanatic following these days.

Frontend game is now owned by Node, ReactJS, JS etc.

Who uses php to do anything? In fact I don't know of a single college kid I've hired who has even looked at php let alone used it.