I’d go with php, it can be strictly or loosely typed, has C-like syntax (same as C#, Java, C, C++, Javascript and others) and has a huge standard library built-in, so for a lot of tasks you don’t even need an external dependency.

Sounds horrible. Luckily I skipped all that and just installed Angular and not cared about any of this stuff and focused on business logic.

Though the modules bit me recently when working on a simple typescript project, I solved it by trying different targets until it worked.