@hackdefendr @fell That's a not-unreasonable summary for #ChatGepetto. 🙂

At the raw code-execution level, PHP and JS are very comparable these days, AFAIK. And both are far ahead of Python or Ruby.

PHP is usually not async, though it can be. JS is always async. Depending on the use case, that may or may not impact overall performance. PHP's modern async has fewer DX problems compared to JS, but it's still new and not widely used.