Thats interesting. In PHP world the situation radically different: modern frameworks based on libevent are really speed up web apps up to 10x.

I've thoroughly benchmarked my own framework[1] for REST APIs and now it outperforms many of Go / Node.js platforms on Techempower[2]

[1] https://github.com/gotzmann/comet

[2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=e...

gotzmann

·6 years ago·discuss

I kinda prefer PHP for most of my web backends like yet another REST API.

Modern framewrok like Comet easily beats any NodeJS or Python project regarding performance and latency:

https://github.com/gotzmann/comet

gotzmann

·6 years ago·discuss

In reality many programmers do not think much about how slices really work and got stuck with many gotchas from the mentioned quizzes.

gotzmann

·6 years ago·discuss

I've compiled a few interesting quizzes about Go's slices: https://medium.com/@gotzmann/so-you-think-you-know-go-c5164b...

gotzmann

·6 years ago·discuss

I've documented all benchmarks here: https://github.com/gotzmann/benchmarks

gotzmann

·6 years ago·discuss

I'm digging into PHP and creating performant yet PSR compliant framework for building ultra-fast REST APIs:

https://github.com/gotzmann/comet

gotzmann

·6 years ago·discuss

To any other API server written in "fast" in common sense language or platform like Go, NodeJS, Java, Net Core, etc.