HHVM

That's definitely food for thought, I also didn't like the idea of using something that couldn't be installed on shared hosting as a lot of websites tend to be on shared hosting.
I was tinkering with google go and the revel framework and was suitably impressed by its concurrency model, however, the framework didn't seem mature enough and again the portability issue with shared hosting was kinda a dealbreaker.

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