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JavaScript's async features are made possible because of its event loop (Node.js is essentially V8 + libuv).

You can use one of many event loop implementations with PHP, including libuv, if you so wish.

Sure. But JavaScript has Promise built in to the language these days. With PHP you'd have to use a third party extension, like swoole, if you want something like that. Or write your own, of course.

But should we need to do this for a 25 year old backend language?

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