> I would say most of the migration from PHP was due to the appeal of one language for frontend and backend Definitely not. PHP lost far more market share to J

> I would say most of the migration from PHP was due to the appeal of one language for frontend and backend Definitely not. PHP lost far more market share to Java,C# and Ruby on Rails than to node.js > PHP is still very usable for server-side rendering and APIs. Not "is still", but "has become". It has changed a lot since the PHP 3 days. > You say "very simple" as if you can't have complex systems with PHP. With early 2000s PHP, you really couldn't, not without suffering constantly from the language's inadequacies. > I see the current state of web development as a spiral of complexity with a lot of performance pitfalls. Over-engineering seems to be the default. I don't disagree, but that seems to happen most of all in the frontend space.