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

[flir]

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