If you’re looking towards hosting on shared style infra, php is still the choice. Also if you just have experienced PHP devs Python is a pretty great alternati

If you’re looking towards hosting on shared style infra, php is still the choice. Also if you just have experienced PHP devs Python is a pretty great alternative - it gives you more breadth to go wide than PHP does (batch processing, hadoop, machine learning, whatever really) but really there are like 10-20 different languages in the ecosystem that are all viable candidates.