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Rense Bakker

PHP still doesnt have good async support... jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022...

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Muhammed ALi Abdulwahed

not exactly :p there is a package to help us through this point
github.com/spatie/async

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Rense Bakker

There are several solutions for it, if you look at the article I linked, none of them has been able to get any meaningful market share, despite being around for more than a decade. PHP just wasn't meant for writing async code and it's one of the shortcomings that will eventually make it obsolete.

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Muhammed ALi Abdulwahed

for sure ! each language has its own weak points