Simple honest answer is any compiled language will likely beat it. Your big ones being C, C++, Go and Rust. I personally despise Go but it does categorically ru

Simple honest answer is any compiled language will likely beat it. Your big ones being C, C++, Go and Rust. I personally despise Go but it does categorically run faster than PHP so is a valid answer here. However there’s a ton of other compiled languages based on GCC and LLVM and many of them will likely have a web framework or two. I’d personally recommend Rust if only for for better integration with the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem which is the other super powerful language that can be a real secret weapon in terms of scaling performance once you need more than a single hardware mode.