[encoderer]

Let me preface by linking to a project of mine that is very much in the "things PHP is not great at" category - https://github.com/shaneharter/PHP-Daemon

Which is entirely why I have a disclaimer up top: "Note: For many reasons PHP is not an optimal language choice for creating servers or daemons. I created this library so if you must use PHP for these things, you can do it with ease and produce great results. But if you have the choice, Java, Python, Ruby, etc, are all better suited for this."

But there are enough reasons to use PHP (and enough people doing it) that good libraries like this socket library (and the Daemon library I linked above) are a really valuable contribution to the PHP community.

[RobAley]

Can you list a few of the "many reasons" you talk about in the disclaimer?