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Of those two I'd suggest Rails, though neither would be my top recommendation for a first backend framework. PHP is... a horrible language. It's badly designed in so many different ways. This classic article gives a breakdown of the many reasons PHP is a nightmare. In the old days, it was still worth using because the PHP+Apache runtime environment was so convenient. But in the modern world where Node, C# and Go all have high performance built in webservers and docker makes spinning up a server repeatable and easy, that advantage is gone. The only reason I'd focus on PHP is if there's a specific company you want to work for that uses it (Meta and Slack are two particularly high profile PHP shops, though both use the Hack dialect that mitigates many of PHPs flaws). Ruby is a much nicer, more consistent language. But Rails does have some real issues. Rails is an extremely opinionated framework. There's a 'Rails way of doing things' for almost every situation. Developers who learned Rails first do have a tendency to struggle when confronted with other frameworks that are less batteries included. That being said, Rails is still wildly used and is very easy to learn. If you wanted my opinion, my stack ranking of BE frameworks to pick up would be: Java/Spring Boot Javascript/Typescript/Node/Express ASP.NET Core Go with native HTTP server Python/Flask or Python/FastAPI Ruby/Rails Any other Java framework Any other Node framework Python/Django Anything in a 'obscure' language like Scala, Clojure, Elixir or (god help you) Haskell Any PHP framework. Anything in C++ But that's as much based on my language biases (I really like Typescript, C# and Go) as it is on skill marketability. More on reddit.com

You enjoyed it so why not? Just started learning myself

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Pick the best tool for the job. More on reddit.com