greggman7

Yes of course, Apple doesn't have to follow it's own rules.

PHP integrates with the server. It does not have the spawn a new process per request like CGI

What would replace it?

PHP is unique in that it makes sharing a server trivial and low-resource compared to almost every other solution.

A simple example might be that you can run 100s of PHP forums on a single machine low memory machine but if you want to use discourse (not written in PHP), it requires 10x 20x the resources for a single forum.

This is true about almost every other solution AFAICT.

IIRC, WebGPU is shipping on Android in ~4 days

Safari Technology Preview finally turned it on again. Of course when Apple will ship it on Mac and/or iOS is unknown but at least they showed some progress after hiding for 6 or more months

Firefox is doing their best to ship ASAP.

This is super true. It's why programmers like writing game engines. It's relatively well defined all the parts needed so it feels like you're making lots of progress when in reality you're just re-inventing the wheel and not doing the truly hard part, the actual design and content creation. I'm super guilty of it myself.

I agree with you.

I watched some students prototype a simple diplomacy type game on paper first, targeted at phones. On paper people got it, talked to each other, negotiated. On the phone, people just stared at their screens, made choices entirely in isolation, no "diplomacy" what-so-ever.