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> It’s cool to see PHP getting its second heyday once again. It’s currently a perfect storm of two communities starting to notice PHP.

Really? I see no evidence that this is happening

The Frontend / server less / JS ecosystem craziness and high rate of change has left a lot of devs disenchanted.

High profile posts over bundlers, tailwind, and microservices set the scene.

A few popular people on Twitter have been talking about Laravel which has influenced other devs.

Wind is in Laravel's sails, not php's

PHP has never been replaced as the dominant scripting language for the web.

Almost every PHP site also uses JavaScript so I'd say not

awestroke asked for evidence, but your long comment provided none