There are tons of alternatives to JS if you count languages that compile to JS. Probably just as many as there are alternatives to PHP. Also, the fact that ther

There are tons of alternatives to JS if you count languages that compile to JS. Probably just as many as there are alternatives to PHP. Also, the fact that there are alternatives to PHP does not mean that they are widely used. We're in an echo chamber here, but in the real world, PHP is still the de facto language of the back end web. The LAMP stack is still the dominant setup. It's unfortunate, but it's reality.