> Because no other language is as easy to deploy Nah, it's because PHP isn't an actively running process. The overhead of starting a process isn't what it use

> Because no other language is as easy to deploy Nah, it's because PHP isn't an actively running process. The overhead of starting a process isn't what it used to be in shared web infra world before. It's cheap to spin up a small VM now. And there are other similar constructs, e.g. FaaS