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by ingonealan3 727 days ago
"[...] async should be the hot cake compared to synchronous programming. But that doesn't work out in practice for some reason. If that really were the case, 80% of web apps would have been powered by Node instead of PHP today, right?"

You're not taking into account people's reluctance to change. PHP has been around for much longer than Node has. This fact is practically enough to explain the phenomenon you're pointing to.