[joeblau]

The "Thoughts" section was the most informative part of the benchmark which underscores the way I, when I was working with PHP, operated. When I started with PHP(2005), the frameworks were terrible, I would cobble together many random coding examples from stuff I found on the web and just make my own Framework up. I don't think PHP from a performance standpoint is any better or worse, but the default examples that you generally see in the ecosystem provide significantly worse performance. The one thing that Node clearly has an upper hand on PHP with is the ecosystem. It's a lot easier for a developer new to the Node ecosystem to hit that Node target than it would be for someone of the same skill to hit the PHP target in terms of hours spent.

One funny thing is that the ReactPHP[1] site is visually similar to the Node[2] homepage.

[1] - http://reactphp.org/ [2] - http://nodejs.org/

[girvo]

React was originally called Node.PHP or something similar, if I recall correctly!

[phpnode]

http://nodephp.org originally