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I think you have to do webdev to really enjoy it, I never write PHP unless it's something with laravel.

As usual, it really comes down to personal preference. In the past year, I have managed a few things in Wordpress, wrote my own PHP, Flask and node sites; and after all that I would 100 % choose Flask or node over PHP.

Node has the advantage of same language back and front, "asynchronous" execution and having both dynamic typing and static typing with TypeScript. And huge ecosystem obviously helps as well.

Python also has pretty sizeable community and Django is probably a huge reason why a lot of people choose python over anything else. And the syntax, at least to me, feels much less cumbersome than PHP. But I have not tried PHP 8 at all.

I like flask and express, there are simpler than php franeworks like laravel so I can see why one would prefer using them, but django is weird and I could never get used to it. I always felt like there was too much magic.

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