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I disagree. I would say most of the migration from PHP was due to the appeal of one language for frontend and backend, and fashion/hype. PHP is still very usable for server-side rendering and APIs. You say "very simple" as if you can't have complex systems with PHP.

I see the current state of web development as a spiral of complexity with a lot of performance pitfalls. Over-engineering seems to be the default.



> I would say most of the migration from PHP was due to the appeal of one language for frontend and backend

Definitely not. PHP lost far more market share to Java,C# and Ruby on Rails than to node.js

> PHP is still very usable for server-side rendering and APIs.

Not "is still", but "has become". It has changed a lot since the PHP 3 days.

> You say "very simple" as if you can't have complex systems with PHP.

With early 2000s PHP, you really couldn't, not without suffering constantly from the language's inadequacies.

> I see the current state of web development as a spiral of complexity with a lot of performance pitfalls. Over-engineering seems to be the default.

I don't disagree, but that seems to happen most of all in the frontend space.




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