Every time someone someone describes their software as 'lightweight' and then step one is 'install PHP' (or, slightly better, 'install Node') it's like... no, actually.
(also 'database-free' is not a selling point, we invented DB software for a reason and while the sqlite team may have some debatable idealologies, it's an extremely portable format that doesn't require additional system dependencies)
Likes
(I realize Python has the same problem! Though obviously not as much as Known Resource Hog PHP. For all that my impressions of Go are 'like Rust but less good', it at least compiles down to single binaries)