It should not be surprising that this can be done in php. The libevent extension for event driven non-blocking I/O has been added some time ago. Together with

It should not be surprising that this can be done in php. The libevent extension for event driven non-blocking I/O has been added some time ago. Together with many nice new features since PHP 5.3, including improved garbage collection and speed improvements, it naturally follows that php will be used for these things. Btw, the libevent extension is really fantastic. If you're doing server programming, take a look at it, it will turbo-charge your server http://php.net/manual/en/book.libevent.php http://php.net/manual/en/book.libevent.php Perhaps php lost some if its sexiness, but it's still rapidly evolving and improving.