[nullfish]

I've been using PHP for our latest venture after 8+ years of node.js and it's become the de facto language to use at our company.

Anyone writing comments about "scaling" or "performance" has never had to deal with a half-baked application written by some junior node.js developer who thought their microservice had to be Internet Scale(tm)

PHP is a great choice in 2022. Hell, it'll be a great choice in 2032 I'm sure. The tooling and debugging that PHP provides is incredibly powerful. Developers are easy to find, it's easy to pick up (which sure makes it easy to get wrong), but those who get it right will do it incredibly well.

Arguments against PHP are lead by developers who think they're smarter than they really are.