> No one here suggested you should be writing PHP daemons. I agree with everything you've said and this statement isn't false in the scope of this thread. But

> No one here suggested you should be writing PHP daemons. I agree with everything you've said and this statement isn't false in the scope of this thread. But I can't count how many times fellow PHP developers have suggested using PHP to write daemons and scripts that would be running on servers for weeks or months (or presumably even years) without restart or how much push back I received when I suggested using something better suited for it. But to your point none were proficient in other languages so it's only natural they'd try to figure out how to do it in the one they knew best.