It's easy to see the world skewed by blog posts. There's growing use of Perl[1] outside of the 'SF startup scene' echo chamber, huge quantity of new projects in Oracle APEX, power plant simulations in Tcl[2] and the gardens full of thousand flowers blooming.
There are many more stories like that. I was surprised to learn that Delphi is alive and well, and people earn their bread with it writing applications for various industries.