I am aware modern PHP is actually pretty good, but having grown up with PHP in the 2000s I can't help but get chills up my spine every time I read '$nonWebThing written in PHP'
I've seen massive cli apps and services written in PHP, it's actually pretty good for that sort of thing and given no build or compile step the devex is quite nice.
There's trade offs of course but for things where disk or network is the bottleneck it performs just fine.
There's trade offs of course but for things where disk or network is the bottleneck it performs just fine.