"one guy is responsible for maintaining PHP" is extremely inaccurate framing. "Companies keep running end-of-life, unmaintained software, constantly exposing themselves and their users to massive security issues" would be slightly better.
70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...