This is why choosing the right language for the job is so important. I know PHP has a bad reputation, but I personally think it offers an excellent middle grou

This is why choosing the right language for the job is so important. I know PHP has a bad reputation, but I personally think it offers an excellent middle ground for web projects. It has some great frameworks which have been used at scale while not having all the complexity and rigidness of Java. As a dev that's used Java, PHP and Node in the past I perfer working on PHP and Node projects because I feel far more productive and less constrained, but I can certainly appreciate why a larger corporate project might choose Java. Arguing about the perfect language seems pointless without some idea of the requirements.