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hu3 ◴[] No.45077689[source]
> In short, the modern PHP ecosystem gives us the best of both worlds: the ability to build quickly and confidently in PHP, while still having powerful options (C, Rust, Go) for performance-critical parts. This hybrid approach lets us stay productive without sacrificing speed where it matters most.

I understand this for a large codebase where rewriting is not feasible.

But if that wasn't the case, a C# APIs achieves both speed of development and execution in my experience. You'll rarely need to reach for C++ or Rust.

PHP is great but the language still doesn't allow things like typed arrays. It will happily accept string in a array of dates, for example.

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1. newuser94303 ◴[] No.45079138[source]
I would never use a Microsoft language since they discontinued VB6. Open Source languages are the only sane option.
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2. chairmansteve ◴[] No.45079381[source]
C# is open source.
3. mrsmrtss ◴[] No.45083377[source]
And you are not using Typescript either, because it's a Microsoft language? Also .NET is open source over a decade already and c# was free and open from the beginning (Mono implementation).