[that_guy_iain]

Having read your post:

* Vanilla PHP can't read anywhere near the same RPS as the others

* Using those results in removing the ability to use a large amount of the ecosystem. While if you used the correct language you would be able to use it's entire ecosystem.

* In my opinion, if you're using workerman or Swoole you've already realised the limitations of PHP and should be using another language.

This seems like a classic case of "if all you have is a hammer everything looks like nail"

> Might not be as fast as go, but to say these libraries or tech isn't production-ready is rather naive.

This strawman argument. Firstly, you admit my original point. Secondly, those aren't the tech in question and I notice you left off the tech in question. Roadrunner, FrankenPHP, etc. All the tooling that can make your average PHP app go faster.