Comment by slifin

JavaScript is a worse language than PHP in some ways, for example no native type hinting, no native filter map reduce on hash tables, no explicit variable import into scope

I'm not saying PHP is a better asynchronous language than NodeJS but I'd definitely be wary of JavaScript unless you're interested in compiling

If you're interested in compiling then there are some very good languages in that space that are not JavaScript, Go, #F, etc