Php-is-dead Memes

Someone really committed that "PHP is dead" meme to a GitHub repo. While everyone's at the funeral mourning PHP's supposed demise, there's always that one guy kneeling by the grave, still maintaining his legacy codebase from 2009. You know what? Half the internet still runs on PHP. WordPress, Facebook's backend origins, countless e-commerce sites—they're all powered by this "dead" language. But sure, let's all pretend it's extinct while it quietly processes millions of requests per second. The commit message is chef's kiss though—wholesome dedication to a language everyone loves to hate but refuses to actually replace.

PHP sitting there like the cockroach that survived the nuclear apocalypse while everyone keeps throwing funeral arrangements at it. For THREE DECADES people have been writing PHP's obituary, and yet here we are in 2025 celebrating its 30th birthday like it's some kind of immortal deity that feeds on developer hatred. ColdFusion? Dead. ASP.NET's glory days? Faded. NextJS being the "PHP killer"? PHP literally laughed and ate another slice of birthday cake. The cycle is HILARIOUS: new framework drops → "PHP is dead!" → PHP continues powering like 77% of the web → confused pikachu face → repeat. Meanwhile Ruby on Rails and Django got their little moment of fame in the timeline like supporting characters in PHP's never-ending sitcom. The real plot twist? That