Go with PHP
As a fullstack developer who has worked many, many years in the javascript hellhole, I mean ecosystem, as well as the python ecosystem and .NET; coming back to PHP the last 2 years, working essentially in Laravel and the like - I couldn&#x27;t approve more of this message.<p>Seriously, PHP is the grand father that will drive you to class and you&#x27;ll never be late, the car will never smell and everything will always just be fine.<p>It&#x27;s fast, it&#x27;s typed (now), it&#x27;s reliable.<p>Laravel is pretty darn rock solid. I&#x27;ve used a LOT of frameworks. Most of them fall on their ass in either the documentation or performance scope. Laravel is beasty, reasonably well documented, handles hundreds of thousands of users without a scratch. Plays well with Redis and MariaDB or anything really.<p>Just ignore the fugly standard library inconsistencies of (old) PHP, every language has their toilet corner...<p>Oh and it&#x27;s free. All of it. PHP, Laravel. And its hosting has always been the cheapest. You don&#x27;t need a particular OS or certain cloud providers.<p>When I consider the solutions of flask and microservices I&#x27;ve left behind, the many node processes running with pm2, the complexity of .NET solutions... PHP just works, and it&#x27;s easy to make reliable... And if it&#x27;s slow, it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m doing dumb stuff, not because of dark corner edge case I happened to be tripping into.<p>It&#x27;s single threaded first, queue jobs for anything slower. That simple facts make it so much easier to reason about things, and keeps the fullstack linear, transactional and easy to reason about, 2 years into it.<p>PHP is not the best language in the world. I prefer Swift and even Go for many reasons, but it&#x27;s an easy, simple, straightforward language. It&#x27;s the BMX of the languages.