Re: Executing PHP SAPI/runtime from Golang/Rust

On 14/08/2022 13:29, Paul Dragoonis wrote:

Moreover if you're looking at reasons people have previously or currently moving away from PHP to other languages, due to limitations like pure async or concurrency stuff .. then perhaps a new FRONTEND which can execute the PHP runtime on the backend would be solving some things.

There already are concurrent and asynchronous solutions for PHP: Swoole, Amp, React, etc I think part of the reason they aren't more popular is simply that they're young compared to the language itself - one of PHP's big advantages is its thriving ecosystem of existing software, frameworks, and libraries. A lot of those need modifying to take advantage of a concurrent / asynchronous environment, or even to run safely at all, because they assume PHP's traditional "shared nothing" model. By contrast, the ecosystems of node.js, Go, etc have been written with concurrent / asynchronous already "baked in", so are fully ready to take advantage of it. If you need to rewrite large chunks of your codebase to use an async-friendly framework anyway, it's less of a leap to switch language completely. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]