Me personally if I would be asked something like "we can;t use PHP starting from tomorrow for our backend crap, what should we use?" I would say node or if we

Me personally if I would be asked something like "we can;t use PHP starting from tomorrow for our backend crap, what should we use?" I would say node or if we need to use a static language would be Java. And the choice is not about the language but about the entire ecosystem(libraries, tools, developers, documentation) Using type hints and a good IDE there are not many type related issue slipping in the code.