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Interesting.

changes the shared nothing status of traditional php serving.

Daemons!

ReactPHP and all the other "async" frameworks became obsolete the moment Swoole entered the game.

Big disagree. They're just different. Swoole is like Golang, ReactPHP is like Node, in terms of runtime style.

What is React PHP?

Think of it like if PHP had Node's event loop runtime.

There's also Swoole, which is like if PHP had Golang's runtime (i.e. coroutines and such).