[archerx]

1) learning two languages is not hard or a problem. The fundamentals are the same.

2) I have no idea what you are doing but I have never had those issues. I don’t use Laravel or Mongodb though so maybe it’s that? json_encode should give you a string not an array or object?

3) stating a fact is not a strawman and calling it a strawman is not an argument. PHP is as good or as bad as you want it to be. It boils down to the skill of the developer. Bad developers will have a bad time, but that applies to most languages.

I’m not serving an entire JS “stack” either, I write fast, efficient tailored JS without dependencies or frameworks.

Sending html and having JS just for interactivity is surprisingly fast.