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Sobakus

I work in a big company and PHP is our main language by far, with a bit of Python for data-heavy backend processes a some Vue for frontend.

PHP is so easy to setup and deploy, lightweight (unless you use laravel or something like that), flexible and so dead easy to learn and debug that I haven't found yet any really compelling reason to switch to something else.

With PHP 8.1 the language will become self serving with parallelization, like Node, albeit you can do that with Swoole already.

For us it works perfectly fine for our heavy-duty mobile API.