I went to my first conference yesterday. DeveloperWeek was a pretty good time. Got to hear some good talks and meet some really cool people. Even got to see a robot dog in person
1995: PHP is dead, learn ColdFusion
2001: PHP is dead, learn ASP .NET
2003: PHP is dead, learn Django
2005: PHP is dead, learn Ruby on Rails
2010: PHP is dead, learn Flask
2011: PHP is dead, learn AngularJS
2015: PHP is dead, learn React
2016: PHP is dead, learn Next.js
2018: PHP is dead, learn Serverless (FaaS)
2020: PHP is dead, learn Jamstack
2022: PHP is dead, learn Python (again)
2024: PHP is dead, learn AI generated backends
2025: PHP is still used by ~73% of the internet
@gabsmashh You've gotta find non-political ways to ruin Thanksgiving this year. Like asking whether orange juice should have pulp, if pineapple belongs on pizza, if Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and now I can add if the wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald is a Thanksgiving song 😂