New is not necessarily bad. Old is not necessarily good. It all depends on what we are doing, and what our goals are.
I also use PHP to write my backends. It works nicely, for the scope of my needs. I’ve been writing in that, for over twenty years. My servers work quite well, but aren’t particularly “buzzword-compliant.”
I’m not really a server programmer, though. If I need a backend to be more intense than what I’m capable of doing, then I’ll hire someone to write it, using a more robust stack, and I need to be prepared to open my wallet, as I have high standards. Good engineers will always cost more. They’re worth it. They will frequently also have gray hair; regardless of the tech.
New is not necessarily bad. Old is not necessarily good. It all depends on what we are doing, and what our goals are.
I also use PHP to write my backends. It works nicely, for the scope of my needs. I’ve been writing in that, for over twenty years. My servers work quite well, but aren’t particularly “buzzword-compliant.”
I’m not really a server programmer, though. If I need a backend to be more intense than what I’m capable of doing, then I’ll hire someone to write it, using a more robust stack, and I need to be prepared to open my wallet, as I have high standards. Good engineers will always cost more. They’re worth it. They will frequently also have gray hair; regardless of the tech.