Now, the actual tragedy of PHP isn't that coding in it feels soul-drainingly tainted, but that it was always ‘good enough’ for armies of people. Because, as a r

Now, the actual tragedy of PHP isn't that coding in it feels soul-drainingly tainted, but that it was always ‘good enough’ for armies of people. Because, as a result, there wasn't any incentive to add features outside of the paradigm of one-shot scripts. E.g. there are at least three async frameworks, with barely any adoption―and this new ‘Swole’ one is advertised like ReactPHP never existed, with its promises and everything. Meanwhile, somehow, the poster notion of PHP's versatility is that it's purportedly just fine for desktop GUI programming, of all things―while being single-threaded (its ‘pthreads’ aren't threads). The topic of UI freezes never comes up in these pamphlets, for some reason.