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Samuel Amagbakhen

What about Node.js? My mind sings that one to me every now and then

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Daniel Ziltener

JavaScript is not suitable for the backend. (Neither is it for the frontend, but there you don't have a choice)

 
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Samuel Amagbakhen

Why is JavaScript not suitable for frontend?

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Andrew Baisden

Personally I would choose Node.js because if you already know Javascript then it will be the easiest to learn. It’s just JavaScript on the backend. Otherwise I would choose Python because it’s highly popular and in that stack overflow survey Python is ranked 4 and PHP is ranked 8 in popularity among developers. insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/...