It's a particularly ugly and distasteful aspect of software / programmer culture to declare anything that isn't either ubiquitous or in the middle of it's hype cycle to be "dead" - even when used by millions of people and providing huge value etc.
It doesn't serve anybody's interests: for all of us, nearly everything we are passionate about in software will be declared "dead" even one day, with this logic. I usually interpret someone saying "X is dead" as saying more about the person expressing it than the language or software they are talking about.
It doesn't serve anybody's interests: for all of us, nearly everything we are passionate about in software will be declared "dead" even one day, with this logic. I usually interpret someone saying "X is dead" as saying more about the person expressing it than the language or software they are talking about.