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That’s more of a philosophical question.
My only current issue with PHP is resource handling, and the lack of ability to share sockets between threads/fibers. Erlang actually does this so well, it’s a shame that language isn’t more used, and so managers are afraid of it.
Back to the question: is the resource sharing an issue with PHP, or is it my PEBKAC that I’m trying to bend PHP to something it wasn’t designed for?
At a first level it certainly is an issue with PHP, but PHP was also designed by a human. That design comes with its own problems right? I guess what I said is just a generalisation of PEBKAC as all (mostly all) software is designed by some human. Fact that it’s a different chair may as well be considered not a PEBKAC ? Yes it’s philosophical or simply which perspective you choose to see.
Haven’t played with amphp/parallel but maybe worth a look to see how/if sockets are shared there.
Yeah, for a PHP socket server, the best route would be going React/Amp route, as building a custom event loop is a big undertaking, and anyone will shoot themselves in the foot or worse.
Since they are single process loops, you don’t need to ‘share’ them, as they all belong to the only process. But that does limit you to a single process.