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Exploring Coroutines in PHP

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116 points doekenorg | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 09:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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pachico ◴[08 Jul 25 10:24 UTC] No.44498693[source]▶
I don't write PHP code anymore. I had a great time doing so for years but now I mostly write in Go for a company that writes a lot in PHP.

What I see from PHP is a missed opportunity for not having any native lightweight multi thread capabilities not a robust HTTP server.

I wish the situation changed.

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pier25 ◴[08 Jul 25 12:35 UTC] No.44499373[source]▶
The execution model is definitely the biggest issue with PHP these days.

Although now that the PHP Foundation is officially supporting FrankenPHP maybe things will be evolving into a new paradigm.

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/05/15/frankenphp/

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tored ◴[08 Jul 25 14:46 UTC] No.44500492[source]▶
But why pick PHP then? Why not use nodejs or similar where the language, application stack and the community is already in agreement on the execution model.
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1. pier25 ◴[08 Jul 25 14:56 UTC] No.44500587[source]▶
I don’t use php but it’s extremely popular around the world. There’s also Laravel which seems a lot more productive than anything in js for full stack dev.