PHP has a really bad reputation in the tech world, unfortunately.
I had that wrong idea too until very recently. I realized PHP has progressed a lot better in the last 10 years than JS has because they have the luxury of being able to control the runtime. Unlike the JS world that has to use TS as a crutch because browsers are evolving so slowly.
Indeed. Every time I do work on a recent javascript framework I find myself crying into my coffee because of all the (what feels like) needless complexities. Svelte is pretty good though. Still love me some python, go, rust and laravel though.
I had that wrong idea too until very recently. I realized PHP has progressed a lot better in the last 10 years than JS has because they have the luxury of being able to control the runtime. Unlike the JS world that has to use TS as a crutch because browsers are evolving so slowly.