A brief analysis of why foreigners don't use swoole

As a high-performance PHP asynchronous network communication framework, Swoole has been recognized by more and more PHP developers, but it is rare to see foreign programmers using Swoole in their projects. So, why don’t foreigners use Swoole?

First, let’s take a look at whether Swoole is widely known and used among foreign programmers. Although Swoole's official documentation provides translations in multiple languages, it is still mainly focused on Chinese and Japanese. On GitHub, Swoole only has about 22,000 stars, which is far behind other asynchronous communication frameworks such as Node.js and Go.

Secondly, there are already a large number of asynchronous communication frameworks in foreign communities. For example, Node.js, as an asynchronous JavaScript running environment, has similar application scenarios to Swoole and has been widely used in back-end development. Python's asynchronous communication framework asyncio can also meet the needs of asynchronous I/O. C libraries such as Boost.Asio and Libuv also provide support for asynchronous communication.

In addition, Swoole’s development documents and code comments are all in Chinese, which is undoubtedly an obstacle for some foreign programmers. If foreign programmers have not studied Chinese, they may not be able to accurately understand the implementation mechanism and usage of Swoole. Although machine translation tools can be used to aid understanding, due to the imprecision and fluency of translation, it is difficult to quickly read and understand Swoole-related documents anytime and anywhere.

Another possible reason is that Swoole’s application scenarios are relatively narrow. Although Swoole has excellent performance, its application areas are relatively narrow, mainly focusing on network communications such as Web Server, WebSocket, and TCP/UDP Server. These fields are not the main directions in the development scenarios of foreign programmers. In contrast, the asynchronous frameworks of Node.js and Python can be used in front-end development, machine learning, data analysis and other fields, and have a wider range of application scenarios.

In short, although Swoole's performance and efficiency are excellent, it is not the first choice in the development scenarios of foreign programmers. The reasons may include: Swoole is not well-known in foreign communities; there are a large number of asynchronous communication frameworks to choose from; Swoole's development documents and code comments are mainly in Chinese; the application scenarios are relatively narrow and other factors.

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