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by gnz11 487 days ago
You say you "advise" and don't give any specifics. So why Kotlin over the myriad of other options? Picking a LAMP stack is picking a stack that is battle tested — nothing wrong with that for new projects.
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Kotlin is basically Java 2.0. Kotlin has really great developer ergonomics and a huuuge ecosystem of Java libs you can easily use since you are on top of the JVM which (a much better tech than PHP). Kotlin being quite high-level fits well with webdev (I'd only use Rust for super perf critical web dev for instance). Kotlin is OO-code (easy for new devs) with lots of FP goodness (as that's where the party's at).

Big shops with big legacy PHP code bases all move away from it.

LAMP = Linux (sure), Apache (no-way, use NGINX or in app web server instead), MySQL (sorry, Postgres won) and PHP/Perl (these langs are going the way of the Dodo).

So LAMP is a bad choice nowadays. I'd say it has been since Ruby on Rails 1.0.