“Does this thing persist across requests” is ridiculously simple to answer in php because the answer is “no, unless you very explicitly told it to”.
In a go or java or whatever service you have to know if your “thing” is specific to
the request handler, or if it’s part of shared state.
There is no reason that routing in a php app has to be done via mapping urls to php files, it’s a very common practice to have a front controller that bootstraps the app environment and in turn handles routing of the request to a piece of logic.
“Does this thing persist across requests” is ridiculously simple to answer in php because the answer is “no, unless you very explicitly told it to”.
In a go or java or whatever service you have to know if your “thing” is specific to the request handler, or if it’s part of shared state.
There is no reason that routing in a php app has to be done via mapping urls to php files, it’s a very common practice to have a front controller that bootstraps the app environment and in turn handles routing of the request to a piece of logic.