My interpretation of this is that the parent commenter thinks the application runtime is faster in PHP than C#..
Modern (dotnet core) C# often beats the pants off go in webserver workloads (Golang likely has the edge in compute and certainly in anything that values startup time).
I really don't see a universe where idiomatic PHP beats out idiomatic C# though.
> I love it when you change one line of a shared lib in C# and it takes an hour for the application to recompile
Here they switch gears to developer productivity. My employer has an extremely large (LoC in the millions) C# codebase that does a from-scratch compile (including C++ dependencies) in ~30minutes. On developer environments, this is incremental and while not as fast as we'd like, it only takes a handful of seconds per iteration if you're actively developing on it. If you aren't familiar with C# tooling or really value a REPL, other stacks _will_ likely be more productive. But like you're saying, at that point why PHP? Why not reach for Ruby (is that still hip?) or node or something?
My interpretation of this is that the parent commenter thinks the application runtime is faster in PHP than C#..
Modern (dotnet core) C# often beats the pants off go in webserver workloads (Golang likely has the edge in compute and certainly in anything that values startup time). I really don't see a universe where idiomatic PHP beats out idiomatic C# though.
> I love it when you change one line of a shared lib in C# and it takes an hour for the application to recompile
Here they switch gears to developer productivity. My employer has an extremely large (LoC in the millions) C# codebase that does a from-scratch compile (including C++ dependencies) in ~30minutes. On developer environments, this is incremental and while not as fast as we'd like, it only takes a handful of seconds per iteration if you're actively developing on it. If you aren't familiar with C# tooling or really value a REPL, other stacks _will_ likely be more productive. But like you're saying, at that point why PHP? Why not reach for Ruby (is that still hip?) or node or something?