"blazing fast", "lightweight", etc... Buzzwords are abound in modern technology circles anymore. To your point; "modern" is especially insidious because it i

"blazing fast", "lightweight", etc... Buzzwords are abound in modern technology circles anymore. To your point; "modern" is especially insidious because it implies that older technology is bad. I'd take vanilla PHP and JavaScript over TypeScript and the frameworks any day. I recognize that's an extremely unpopular opinion but those languages are battle tested over 25 years and if I run into a problem that I haven't seen before, there's a high probability I'll get the correct answer from a search. For the "modern" stuff, I get five different answers and none of them solve my problem because the language and/or framework has changed as many times since the question was first asked. That said; given the choice I'd choose Clojure and ClojureScript. It's a young pup compared to PHP and JS but it's still based on a 60-year old language and just a joy to work with.