I’d be curious to see the data behind that claim that the hobbyist market is overwhelmingly PHP. I must not have any exposure to that ecosystem because PHP does not come to mind when I think of hobbyist development.
Maybe not hobbyists, but wordpress alone powers like a a third of the web.
Sure, but Wordpress is nothing to do with PHP lambdas.
Yes, that's kind of my point :)
is it, though? Every person I know with side projects writes them in either nodejs/ + react/vue or django/flask + react/vue/templates
That is just the divide between frontend devs and backend programmers.
Not necessarily. After I discovered node/typescript I don’t think I will ever go back to PHP.
Not natively, but fairly easily. We’re using Laravel Vapor - it handles all the setup and deployment of Lambda bundles that include the app code and a PHP runtime. Smooth and fast so far.
Yeah; I'd imagine anyone technically savvy enough to use Lambda + API Gateway, in any form, is savvy enough to bundle PHP if they really want to use it. And if they're not savvy enough to do that, they're probably using hosted Wordpress somewhere and it's a moot point.
In my workplace our main product is written in PHP.
Still we have a bunch of Lambda functions written in node we use all the time