[girvo]

I love PHP. Yes, you read that right. And, I completely agree with you.

Also, for the GP, PHP's shared-nothing architecture means scaling horizontally is actually pretty easy all things considered. I just wouldn't write a bitcoin exchange in anything that doesn't have static typing: PHPs gotchas could quite literally cause a massive loss of money.

[ramchip]

A matching engine can't scale horizontally very much in the first place