Rasmus Lerdorf, Creator of PHP / Interview about PHP Multithreading

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[@christianlanoire7541]

I consider this man a genius, just by the simple fact that he created PHP , such a wonderful and powerful language on the server.

[@seeithappen1]

This man is Genius. PHP made my understand websites and webshops and is now paying my bills.

[@danrivera381]

I'm a novice PHP learner but I felt like I understood this guy. He knows how to illustrate complex ideas for idiots like me.

[@mouctechy]

PHP is powerful and the best technology for the web

[@porrapatcpe20]

PHP to THE MOON!
MOON MOON MOON!

[@MrEdenBezerra]

É muito gratificante estudar e trabalhar com a ferramenta PHP. Mais ainda você poder assistir e acompanhar as palestras do criador do programa

[@lserranoit]

I'm a Cobol programmer but I love php.

[@BecomeAWebDev]

very good, thank you

[@ziat1988]

yeah, I feel like learn a lot thing from this 4 min chat. Thanks

[@abdurrazaq8127]

THanks

[@CodeSOS]

Clever man. 👍

[@ahmetemin08]

I am glad that not everyone are thinking like him, so that ZTS came out.
I am using PHP to empower my websocket servers and heavily utilizing Parallels multi-threading library right now.
I feel like he is just afraid to make such changes in PHP, eventually only postponing what is inevitable.

[@JohnDoe-ef4fm]

What you are talking about is asynchronous code execution, not multithreading. The concepts are similar, but not the same.
Asynchronous code execution is indeed needed natively in PHP.

[@loupsalome8874]

To me PHP 8 is the best language to write performant web page rendering. For other things like RealTime stream or any other app that use thread, i just use micro services on the side in Rust or C++ and it works beautifully well. I've never understood the hate around this language because nothing prevents you to use other technologies on the side that does a better job for certains things. Thank you Rasmus Lerdof.

[@pavliga]

We need threads and async functions for cli apps at least

[@RP-up4oe]

use queues , you’ll be much happier

[@rudytjhia8199]

What does he mean be would not scale and would break everything?

[@ivanjelenic5627]

He talked about it in some other video, saying it's really hard to write code like that, and a segfault or some error in one thread could kill all the other threads, while in php if one request process dies, apache just makes a new one, without affecting anything else.

[@WilliamWynn]

So I guess he's saying don't use PHP CLI...

[@AKGamer-xk3eo]

If you do website development PHP is default and still less on pocket

[@cd78]

But PHP is not real multi thread though...

[@NextLevelCode]

That was his whole point...

[@coovv685]

Php vs django?

[@anandraj2895]

Django is best

[@melihbadem7643]

Laravel is best

[@simoneneil-jones7806]

Well that settles it hahha not using multithreading.

[@neuron8186]

Php is dead

[@arunabraham9382]

Its far better in terms of performance than python. Its a long way to be dead.

[@mister-ace]

Never

[@neuron8186]

@@arunabraham9382 lol

[@melihbadem7643]

@@neuron8186 lol

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

Well. There is angular and react, that allready replaced php.
Big companies allready use these so ...
It is a matter of time before php can be considered a dead language.
Unless, major changes take place.