On: PHP-Tokio – Use any async Rust library from PHP

[phpisthebest]

>easy to get a Linux, MySQL, Apache and PHP

Come on now, it is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP === LAMP...

it was more than just easy of getting a server going, it over all ease of development, PHP was MUCH easier to work with as a developer than ASP or Perl, or any of the other early web lang's

[flir → phpisthebest]

ASP was about on a par with PHP 3 tbh. PHP probably had the edge because of the array and string handling, but an IIS/ASP web server was easier to set up, and a lot of people could write visual basic.

[29athrowaway → flir]

IIS and ASP was harder to provision programatically. It was all GUI based.

At the time some saw it as an advantage, today everyone agrees that it does not scale

[flir → 29athrowaway]

Sure, but we're talking about the time when servers were pets, not cattle.

[phpisthebest → flir]

Lots and Lots of Pets still out there.

[29athrowaway → flir]

Speak for yourself, brother

[29athrowaway → phpisthebest]

It is the same set. Personally I used to install it in LMAP order, because Apache and PHP share configuration settings and you want to validate everything end-to-end at the end.