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Are there alternatives to PHP that perform faster and have somewhat the same feature set (like support for common RDBMS, Curl, Regex, etc)?
What about coding websites in C? How does that work out? Is that platform independent and works on each server?
“Are there alternatives to PHP”
– Yes
“…that perform faster…”
– Yes
“…the same feature set…”
– No – that would make PHP redundant.
You’re asking a very broad question. There are lots of languages out there which support all sorts of DBMS, PCRE and other stuff too.
“What about coding websites in C? How does that work out? Is that platform independent and works on each server?”
Its rather difficult to point you in a specific direction based on such a broad ranging question.
You might want to read this:
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
But note that most of the cost of software lies in development – hardware is cheap – so being able to implement something in half the lines of code will be massively more beneficial for most people than doubling the performance.
There are also less obvious constraints and/or advantages in usuing specific languages – e.g.
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html
C.