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The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

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133 points avan1 | 3 comments | 30 Aug 25 19:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.611s | source
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colesantiago ◴[30 Aug 25 20:16 UTC] No.45077666[source]▶
I bit the bullet rewriting my app from PHP to Go and it paid off for my company, we're talking 20K lines of PHP code, reduced to 4K lines of Go and with the added efficiency gains with it.

I think some orgs just need to take the jump and plan a rewrite, add tests (easier with Go) and just do this if they are a PHP shop, I would say it's worth it.

Instead of blending Rust/PHP or Go together and having an unmaintainable mess of a codebase.

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1. NeutralForest ◴[30 Aug 25 20:23 UTC] No.45077715[source]▶
But the question always is: was the rewrite the reason for the gained efficiency, or the new language?
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2. colesantiago ◴[30 Aug 25 20:43 UTC] No.45077844[source]▶
Both.

Go made this worth it and it also was easy to hand over to another experienced developer.

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3. NeutralForest ◴[31 Aug 25 09:29 UTC] No.45081801[source]▶
Fair, what did you find in Go that you couldn't in PHP? Do you miss anything from PHP?