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by OhHeyItsE 3541 days ago
> the async nature of Node made my head nearly explode.

There is a reason that paradigm exists, other than to make development frustrating. How do you avoid thread exhaustion in PHP if you synchronously block on a line that could take a really long time to complete? (Making a request to an external HTTP service, for example)

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Job server + reasonable timeout/retry limits