PHP in 2020
Wow. I&#x27;m honestly surprised by the amount of people (on the HN!) in 2020, thinking PHP is some pre-historical language clearly inferior to... I&#x27;m not even sure <i>what</i>. JS? That would be funny.<p>(It feels like I&#x27;m defending PHP now, which is feels weird, because I can go on for hours talking about the stuff I hate about PHP. But there is a difference between hating it for problems it actually has, and just not treating PHP as seriously useful modern tool which it definitely is.)<p>That aside, I cannot really treat seriously author&#x27;s recommendation of Amp, ReactPHP and such as a solution for async. Don&#x27;t bring up HHVM either. There&#x27;s no real solid support for async&#x2F;await in PHP, not even in the form Python has for quite a while now. And for me, it might be the biggest problem it has right now, which seriously hurts in some applications.