I’d have gone with PHP. Modern PHP is really good, all the tools are mature, the few drawbacks it has are well understood and easily worked around, and it’s an easy language to learn with a huge community of people who already know it.
For a project this large and widely used - I wouldn’t use a framework and that’s another area where PHP really shines. The standard library is very comprehensive, and all of the major frameworks are split into smaller modules which can be used standalone and interact with modules from other frameworks.
So you can bootstrap the project and get to a working proof of concept quickly by using well tested and well written third party code, then later when you need lower memory footprints/etc it’s trivial to fork those modules and and reduce them to just the core features you are actually using in your project.
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I’d have gone with PHP. Modern PHP is really good, all the tools are mature, the few drawbacks it has are well understood and easily worked around, and it’s an easy language to learn with a huge community of people who already know it.
For a project this large and widely used - I wouldn’t use a framework and that’s another area where PHP really shines. The standard library is very comprehensive, and all of the major frameworks are split into smaller modules which can be used standalone and interact with modules from other frameworks.
So you can bootstrap the project and get to a working proof of concept quickly by using well tested and well written third party code, then later when you need lower memory footprints/etc it’s trivial to fork those modules and and reduce them to just the core features you are actually using in your project.
So, kbin then?
PHP is dead. Why not use TS.
That’s certainly an unpopular opinion. I like your bravery!