The language still has plenty of footguns but most serious development is done through well-organized application frameworks and CMS starters. Performance is fi

The language still has plenty of footguns but most serious development is done through well-organized application frameworks and CMS starters. Performance is fine and can be parallelized as well as any application server language. There is a lot of documentation and community support for good proxy and server config, and plenty of hardened images or container configs, so the days of relying on pokey Apache on shared hosting are over for anyone who cares.