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Discussion on: What is the most practical server side language to learn in 2020 - 2021?

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Mike Bybee • Edited

While language versatility and adaptability are important, you have the benefit of a language you not only know and can build upon, but which is continuing to grow in use cases.

I just presented to a group of Drupal (PHP-/Symfony-based) developers last year on how a simple Node microservice alongside their monolithic CMS might make more sense and take less time to add custom functionality than writing custom modules which have to be written in the Drupal way and conform to its API.

As serverless options expand (and gain more and more use in companies), JavaScript backend functions are even easier to implement than with containerized microservices (yes, I know they're still containerized, you just don't need to worry about managing the containers). With Cloudflare Workers (based on service workers), you don't even need to (and in fact can't) use Node.