Convenience probably.

I am German and I use the German keyboard layout…

Ubuntu Mono. Though I don’t use Ubuntu.

Qwant. And occasionally Google and DuckDuckGo

In that case you’ve missed the point. The idiots are running reddit and the pro-blackout guys were trying to get them back to sanity.

There’s still lots of active PHP projects, including new ones. PHP is actually a nice language and much of its negative reputation comes from the years of stagnation during the late PHP 5.x era. Which is long over. I definitely find PHP to be much nicer than JS for backend development, although I no longer use it professionally.