I'd probably go for Django but it feels like a step sideways more than a step forward. Once you've gotten used to a more modern language with great tooling, typ

I'd probably go for Django but it feels like a step sideways more than a step forward. Once you've gotten used to a more modern language with great tooling, typechecking & null handling it's frustrating to go back to a stack where you're getting errors in production that would have been caught by a compiler.