<i>People still use _AMP stacks?</i><p>Change this to &quot;People still use X?&quot;  where the value of <i>X</i> is pretty much any technology you&#x27;ve ever heard of, dating back to the 1970&#x27;s (if not before).  And the answer will, to a first approximation, always be &quot;yes&quot;.<p>Now the <i>number</i> of people using <i>X</i> might be small, but you can all but bet your life that somebody, somewhere is, indeed, still using it.   And depending on what it is, you might be surprised as how large the number actually is.   Keep in mind, HN and Reddit, etc., comprise something of an echo chamber, where people of a certain mindset and orientation flock.  The world is MUCH larger.<p>No, RPG on iSeries &#x2F;AS400 machines isn&#x27;t &quot;cool&quot; and you won&#x27;t see it mentioned on HN much (if at all) but this stuff is still used all over the place.   LAMP stacks?  Yeah, still widely used.  OS&#x2F;2?  Not exactly &quot;widely&quot; used, but still used.  COBOL?  Yep.  Fortran? Yep.  MVS? Yep.  And so on.   Now, granted, this stuff isn&#x27;t used by &quot;hip startups&quot; or &quot;unicorns&quot;, but the world is a lot bigger than the SV startup scene.<p>Technologies die VERY slowly for whatever reason, at least in regards to the &quot;long tail&quot; (so to speak) of the usage curve.