[dheera]

Not have to "build" anything. You edit code and it is already deployed on your dev instance.

Deploying to production is just scp -rv * production:/var/www/

Beautifully simple. No npm build crap.

[jack_pp]

You trade having to compile for actually having code that can scale

[ericd]

Not sure what you’re talking about, I scaled to millions of users on a pair of boxes with PHP, and its page generation time absolutely crushed Rails/Django times. Apache with mod PHP auto scales wonderfully.

[lelanthran]

It scales just fine the same way everything else scales: put a load balancer in front of multiple instances of your app.

[vachina]

It can scale by the virtue of spending a lot less time processing the request

[spiderfarmer]

You don't know anything about the PHP ecosystem and it shows.