For me it died around the same time, but for a different reason: PHP, around that time, started to move in a direction that doesn't really work for me. It has become a highly opinionated language that, in many ways, tries to emulate other highly opinionated languages.
It's not even just an additive "let's add features to enable more modern best practices" approach, but an active attempt at disabling old language features to prevent supposed missteps. That's not what PHP was about.
For me it died around the same time, but for a different reason: PHP, around that time, started to move in a direction that doesn't really work for me. It has become a highly opinionated language that, in many ways, tries to emulate other highly opinionated languages.
It's not even just an additive "let's add features to enable more modern best practices" approach, but an active attempt at disabling old language features to prevent supposed missteps. That's not what PHP was about.
It was about templating language? 😄