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> There's plenty of apps out there written in PHP.

Yes, there are. I didn't say there weren't. I think PHP is great, relax.

In my professional experience, however, I don't see people start a codebase from scratch in PHP anymore. It's almost always based on Node.

> Very few apps are built from scratch using PHP unless the intention is to share the application code like wordpress, drupal, etc.

Err.. that's exactly what you said, no?

Well, yeah, if you work in a shop where node is the goto solution on the server side, that's going to be your experience.

I disagree. Laravel is a huge community, and that's just a framework, lots of people writing things from scratch in PHP still.