[yehosef]

>it's not a concurrent system. It's blocking and that's a problem for modern Web languages.

PHP has had async for a while (https://reactphp.org/) and more recently an extension (https://www.swoole.co.uk/) had brought PHP async to equal or better performance to NodeJS (https://gist.github.com/nkt/e49289321c744155484c)

I recently started working with NodeJS more intensively (heavy lifting for dozens of microservices for complex app/data). While there are many nice features NodeJS has, most people don't understand what PHP can do. In my opinion PHP is superior for many backend application and the "snob factor" is one of the reasons it's not more known beyond wordpress.