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title: "The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-hybrid-php-blending-php-with-go-and-rust-ppdbjl8av
source_url: https://yekdeveloper.com/p/4-the-rise-of-hybrid-php
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2025-08-31T00:11:12.802Z
updated: 2025-08-31T00:11:33.503Z
tags: ["performance", "golang", "php", "rust", "microservices"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 15
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 15 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Modern PHP applications can achieve high performance by integrating compiled languages like Go and Rust through extensions and FFI, rather than rewriting entire systems. This hybrid approach combines PHP's developer productivity with the raw speed of systems languages for performance-critical components. FrankenPHP's worker mode and Go extension capabilities offer up to 4x performance improvements while maintaining the monolithic architecture's benefits.

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**@jkdeguzman** · 4 upvotes

> Yep, I'm a proud FrankenPHP user too! 🚀 It's super fast, fun to work with, and honestly makes PHP feel fresh again. Loving what it brings to the dev world!

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