Ok. The focus of my argument was only on server-side development as php was the language of comparison... however as you mentioned javascript is easy to get sta

Ok. The focus of my argument was only on server-side development as php was the language of comparison... however as you mentioned javascript is easy to get started as well and more or less the only option for front end dev anyway (as typescript, coffeescript, etc are transpiled to js and webassembly has no direct dom access)...