- Too much boilerplate - Existing Java frameworks and libraries are difficult to obtain and maintain and difficult to work with (PHP libraries/frameworks are a

- Too much boilerplate - Existing Java frameworks and libraries are difficult to obtain and maintain and difficult to work with (PHP libraries/frameworks are available in central repository - packagist, and are on github) - Not much difference in performance - because most operations are IO bound in web context - also, PHP extensions are implemented in C - so you could implement your performance-critical parts as a C extension (or if your architecture allows it, in any other language and run as a different service communicating async with your application)