I’ve been eying NestJS as a framework for my node.js work. The difference I find between NestJS and Rails for example is that NestJS puts the things together that sort of crystalized out in the wider community to spare you a lot of the glue code. While Rails has a more cohesive feeling and there are a lot of third party plugins that solve a lot of problems you can have.

PHP gets a bad reputation everywhere, even if is less deserved nowadays. I am still not a fan, the syntax, the libs, the community, it’s not mine. My impression of the community is they have a chip on their shoulder because of the bad rep and the bad rep keeps most new devs away that could significantly change the community. They also are in denial that a lot of the “bad old code” is the main reason they are as huge as they are today and that a lot of people chose PHP back then because it was better (cgi) or cheaper (own server vs cohosting) than the alternatives.