&gt;&gt;PHP is a slow abomination.<p>In my benchmarks, for accessing databases, string concatenation and output, PHP is faster than Nodejs, Go and Python and is on par with Luajit. So no.<p>And it&#x27;s not PHP&#x27;s fault that Drupal and Magento developers don&#x27;t care about performance and think caching is a solution to all performance problems.<p>&gt;&gt;The entirety of Drupal and all modules have to be bootstrapped and run on every request. It runs far too many SQL queries and those queries look atrocious (nested selects, tons of joins, etc).<p>Agree with the above. However, PHP has reactphp which Drupal could have used.