[wolco]

a) no

b) yes

I'm pretty happy with what php has become. Don't really understand the typescript benefit here.

I would like to see a popular async framework.

[poletopole]

Check out ReactPHP.

[wolco]

I like ReactPHP I've been using a really small project that has a good implementation of workman.

https://github.com/walkor/phpsocket.io