If your team only knows PHP, it's just a small project or you only have the resource to find PHP dev replacement, just use it. Easy to use, online resource is plenty, you won't get stuck unless you want to do a lot of parallel task. Just scraping web efficiently in parallel is kind of a work to get it done in PHP.
Right now I just love having type definitions through TypeScript that you can never have in PHP. (Every variable and hash members starts to have a meaning, which means no mistyping of names, never specify non existing member or method and never use wrong method, as in you can't use numeric methods on string members which happens far too often in other languages and the return value is completely consistent. Say, you have a switch statement, and all of them returns a number but you forgot to add 'default' and TS complains that the method is not always returning a number.)
Ruby as a language is beautiful although it doesn't have the power of TypeScript, the code looks far more beautiful than PHP and if you like how rails works which pushes their rules down to your throat but if you feel it tasty, you might like it too.
Right now I just love having type definitions through TypeScript that you can never have in PHP. (Every variable and hash members starts to have a meaning, which means no mistyping of names, never specify non existing member or method and never use wrong method, as in you can't use numeric methods on string members which happens far too often in other languages and the return value is completely consistent. Say, you have a switch statement, and all of them returns a number but you forgot to add 'default' and TS complains that the method is not always returning a number.)
Ruby as a language is beautiful although it doesn't have the power of TypeScript, the code looks far more beautiful than PHP and if you like how rails works which pushes their rules down to your throat but if you feel it tasty, you might like it too.