> We use it to handle millions of concurrent users and it does it without breaking a sweat. Have you tried doing the same with other technologies? > It scales

> We use it to handle millions of concurrent users and it does it without breaking a sweat. Have you tried doing the same with other technologies? > It scales horizontally better than basically anything How does it horizontally scale better than projects written in Golang/C#/Ruby/Python/whatever? > up to 3x faster than Python in recent benchmarks. Computational speed rarely matters. If it does, you would usually fallback to C/C++/Rust library doing the heavy lifting, when using 'slow' languages, or just move the workload to async processes. Web applications spend most of the time doing I/O operations, where async programming makes a lot of sense. Async with PHP is still in its infancy, compared to Python, which has native support for it.