You're telling me today with LLM power multiplier it's THAT much faster to write in PHP compared to something that can actually have a future?
You can stop there! Sounds like PHP worked for them. Already doing better than 90% of startups.
You can use persistent DB connections, and app server such as FrankenPHP to persist state between requests, but that still wouldn't help if DB is the bottleneck.
So PHP worked perfectly, but the DB is slow? Your DB isn't going any faster by switching to something else, if that's what you think.
PHP is the future, where React has been heading for years.
Unlike python or ruby which break right and left all the time on updates. you have to use bunkers of venvs, without any security updates. A nightmare.
PHP can scale and has a future.
Python has the curse of spaces or tabs and JS has the curse of npm.
They are in the same group, similar pedigree. If you were programming purely for the art of it, you would have had time to discover much nicer languages than either, but that's not what most people are doing so it doesn't really matter. They're different but they're about as good as eachother.
Deploying to production is just scp -rv * production:/var/www/
Beautifully simple. No npm build crap.
