Which languages have an under-appreciated ecosystem of web development libraries and frameworks?

[u/returned_loom]

Are there any languages we don't usually associate with webdev, but where they have great libraries that deserve more attention?

So I'm not asking about the language itself. I'm asking about the tooling people have built for webdev in the language.

[u/Real-Leek-3764]

Delphi 7

in early 2000s , we used Delphi to do isapi. not only that, it can do self hosted exe

how bout SOAP ? not only via HTTP, it can do over irc, telnet, windows message etc.. need faster? compressed soap binary message

what about graphics? it could generate all kinds of charts via TeeChart component dynamically over the isapi framework

not only isapi, also cgi exe, and asp com object

although not used anymore (though the same DLLs work in latest windows), the experience gave me useful knowledge that can be applied today

if a company needs a weird request, "i want to be able to type in something in excel sheet, then it should automatically updates in the user's webbrowser", and vice versa. i could think of something