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by cess11 779 days ago
PHP is great, but you need to be a pretty decent developer to use it effectively.

It has a rather nice interactive shell, https://psysh.org/ . I've built non-trivial, non-web systems in it.

Concurrency 'within' the language isn't as nice as some alternatives, but the FCGI-style deployment is quite reliable and convenient in practice.