No native support for concurrency operators, no real event loop implementation, lack built-in support for non-blocking IO...
I do Elixir regularly and Actor Model is not something PHP developers know
> I do Elixir regularly and Actor Model is not something PHP developers know
/me clutches pearls
What a travesty! I wish, I, a lowly, stupid PHP developer was smart enough to know about the Actor model!
/s
Look into ReactPHP, Swoole and Spatie
Is this just a long way of saying it doesn’t have “async” because threads are a perfectly fine concurrency primitive that you can build event loops on top of.
There is async in PHP
Not being a BEAM language is not unique to PHP or it's relevant peer languages.