[breck]

I think the design of PHP the environment is brilliant: no state, requesting a url just executes a file. So simple and solid.

That being said, at some point in 2010-2015 timeline it became essential to master Javascript to do anything good on the web, and so it became a diversion of precious resources to continue to invest in PHP as well.

Instead the progression has just been to recreate the PHP high level architecture in Javascript/nodejs.

So we took the best parts of PHP and brought them to NodeJs land, and then you can cut your costs because you don't have to learn or invest in the full PHP stack.

[paulryanrogers]

Is NodeJS on the server side faster or lower memory? Because the tooling feels heavier with node modules breaking out thousands of files.

I imagine async of Node may help somewhat.