Comment by cess11

I like PHP. It has a raw power that is really nice to have in web development.

Elixir is similar but concurrency is a 'first class citizen', processes instead of objects, kind of. It's worth a look. I've never used it but there's a project for building iOS applications with the dominant Elixir web framework, https://github.com/liveview-native/live_view_native .