PHP is a pretty strong language these days - don't knock it until you try it.

There are definitely issues with getting fine grained memory control in a performant manner but for general processing it's pretty competitive.

I was unphased by Electron, but PHP for Counter-Strike? I'm hoping its using regular websockets.

thank you I guess, I started with php because of rapid development and TDD, but now you can transcode php to C++ or WebAssembly pretty easily, so using vkphp or once wasm socket will be in spec than it is free easy transcode (or using Emscripten), or second option since code is quite simple it will take like barely one week to rewrite it in c++ or other languages which is my plan once the game is future complete and stable (hopefully I will not have to develop my own language :D)

PHP is _fast_. That is a pretty good reason, specially for this type of game.