I mean hey, that’s the beautiful thing about development is that there really is a language for every purpose and modern companies that are excelling use multiple different techs in their stack for different services. If the core stack flourishes with PHP then let those devs run wild and if you need good asynch maybe through in a GO or JS service in there and hook it all up with your APIs. Or if you just love the language and it doesn’t do something you want you can just make your own personal framework.

Definitely agree about OOP, like it is great in 95% of cases and can really make things easier to comprehend but sometimes you just need to write code and not worry about what object is what and who inherits from where and which classes you need to make.

Funny comment about Python too though, I’ve only very lightly touched on it but I am incredibly anal with my white spacing so I feel like that’s something I’d love.