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For me, the reasons are:

- PHP's capability is limited in a sense that its main use case is akin to a template engine rather than a full fletched executable. This puts a lot of limit in PHP

- TS steps up JS' game. Like what other have said, TS brings the hassle of maintaining complex codebase down quite a lot.

- NodeJS is a stepping stone for many frontend developers to learn backend because of the same language used.

- JS' syntax and capabilities, while having inherent unavoidable footguns, allow expressive code (I might be partial on this, the last time I used php is a long time ago)

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