The CTO and security teams and devs will care. The language decision has a broad impact on how to secure the application, engineering community (who can you hire), etc. It’s a big decision.
So PHP should be the obvious choice then, considering what a bloated mess and security nightmare Node.js is.
As someone who ran a company for 5+ years on a Node.js stack, never again.
Before when I managed 5k+ servers running PHP, I actually slept at night knowing nothing was suddenly going to go wrong because of some stupid memory consumption bug or exploit in a popular and critical package.
As someone who ran a company for 5+ years on a Node.js stack, never again.
Before when I managed 5k+ servers running PHP, I actually slept at night knowing nothing was suddenly going to go wrong because of some stupid memory consumption bug or exploit in a popular and critical package.