[FuzzyDunlop]

I'm interested as to how you'd run it as a server without PHP 5.4. Looking at the code, it's written to be compatible with PHP >= 5.3.2, and the composer.json doesn't specify 5.4 as the minimum version.

It also wraps Silex and includes Guzzle (some sort of API consuming thing). Trying to gain credibility from using Node's name seems a little disingenuous given that it's microframework with an event loop of some sort plugged in, and an analogous 'hello world'.

[encoderer]

I think you're hung-up on the integrated webserver that ships with PHP 5.4.

All a "server" is, is a daemon that listens on a port. That's what it does. And it uses LibEvent thus the "node" comparisons.

Though I agree with whomever said that it would be better to compare this to Tornado.

[FuzzyDunlop]

I noticed it only uses libevent if the PECL dependency is satisfied. I'm not aware if this is now packaged by default, but I don't have it installed.

I can imagine any event-based library will now warrant a comparison to Node. However, I've not seen things like EventMachine calling itself Node.Ruby, or Tornado calling itself Node.Python. Or NginX calling itself Node.Server.

That's my bugbear. It feels like linkbait.

Re: the server stuff. I was poorly trying to make the point you made further up, about PHP not being well suited to long running processes or being daemonised. I may well be wrong, but each request will get its own event loop, no?