Brace yourself for virtue signaling about how bad PHP is because <insert wart from 10 year old version>. On a less cynical note, working in both Node and PHP, a

Brace yourself for virtue signaling about how bad PHP is because <insert wart from 10 year old version>. On a less cynical note, working in both Node and PHP, async is often more cumbersome than it's worth (for me) and a queue suffices.