[perttir]

I use php daily. Mostly Symfony/Laravel stuff. There are still some stuff it needs what other languages have. (Can't really right now remember all the stuff i stumble upon sometimes which gives me the feeling "damn if i could do this like i do it in rust/java/cpp/(w/e)")

Maybe the worst thing is the composer (it's slow.)

[Eremotherium]

Try Prestissimo, which enables composer to download packages in parallel

  composer global require hirak/prestissimo

[Epskampie]

The dependency solver is what is slow, not so much the downloading.

[conradfr]

Also doing a composer update in a container with not much ram is sometimes properly impossible. Although that may have changed with the recent 2.0.