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by shinepl10 2122 days ago
You forgot about PHP going to v8
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JavaScript really does take over everything.
Heh. More seriously, I think maybe deno[1] should be on that list, as a nodejs 2.0 / event loop for js 2.0?

[1] https://deno.land

I know this is a joke, but we’re legitimately running v8 as a PHP extension in production on high-traffic sites. It’s actually quite good for server-side JS rendering when you’re working inside an existing PHP framework (WordPress, in our case).
Mind linking anything on how you’re doing that? We’d looked into a couple years ago but it seemed quite complicated from a setup perspective.
The current major version of PHP is 7 so that makes sense, it was really the jump from 5 to 7 which was a little anomalous.
have you a link handy?