[Volrath89]

Dotnet is also very good for building web apps, it also includes static typing and a huge ecosystem.

I agree that web dev is basically a solved problem, I don’t know why stuff like next.js exists

[phist_mcgee]

Some people like writing typescript.

This forum leans backend heavy and there's definitely a bias against using javascript on the backend. But many top websites use it for their infrastructure. It's not all hype driven development.