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Robert Landers

3 years ago
Hello Internals, I saw someone mention writing PHP (the engine) in PHP and it got me thinking, is there anything preventing PHP from being a self-hosted language? I assume this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything via Google or Externals. Robert Landers Software Engineer Utrecht NL

Thomas Hruska

3 years ago
On 4/17/2023 9:29 AM, Robert Landers wrote:
> Hello Internals, > > I saw someone mention writing PHP (the engine) in PHP and it got me > thinking, is there anything preventing PHP from being a self-hosted > language? I assume this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find > anything via Google or Externals. > > Robert Landers > Software Engineer > Utrecht NL
Do you mean something like: https://github.com/cubiclesoft/php-app-server Or something more like Java which is written in Java? In that case, maybe: https://github.com/Corveda/PHPSandbox
-- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President CubicleSoft has over 80 original open source projects and counting. Plus a couple of commercial/retail products. What software are you looking to build?

Thomas Krüger

3 years ago
I guess Robert's idea is more like the "pypy" project for Python, which is a fast Python interpreter written in Python. So, there are examples of PHP interpreter/VMs written in PHP: https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHPPHP Best regards, Thomas Am 17.04.2023 20:21 schrieb Thomas Hruska: