Pick your poison.
@xianc78 It's not actually any easier than anything else just for basic shit. Anything can read env vars passed from FCGI, write to stdout, access DBs, and whatever
But as a language PHP is awful
JS is great for single-threaded event based shit like GUIs, so it makes sense. Actual problem with electron is just that it's a webbrowser
Yeah, okay, JS spec is like 250 pages, but CSS spec alone is like 500
@applejack Yeah, but a lot of shared hosting providers only offer PHP as an option. It's not so much of a problem if it virtual or dedicated but I think most sites are on shared hosting.
@applejack For small, personal websites, PHP does get the job done if you need simple server side scripting, but I don't think it should be used for large projects.
People seem to hate JS due to causing all the cancer of the modern web: live analytics, trackers, pop-up ads, unnecessary animations. Also, the fact that it's now used in desktop applications makes much sense as people writing software as Microsoft Word documents using VB macros.