graalphp

> Guess it's time to rewrite PHP in Rust. The Truffle Framework on GraalVM is a better approach to writing interpreters these days, because you get a JIT and lots of language interop for free. There was a PHP implementation here: https://github.com/abertschi/graalphp

He were are, mostly one developper in only a few years has managed to create ~the fastest R runtime thanks to the graalVM infrastructure https://github.com/oracle/fastr + it get polyglotism for free. See also graalphp: https://github.com/abertschi/graalphp/blob/master/results.md Oracle has managed to create a language framework that enable unprecedented performance and polyglotism but there are no human resources allocated to actually tuning the implementations. Without such framework imagining one developer to implement a language and expect it to outperform the reference vm made by an army of people through decades wouldn't be a realistic expectation but now anythings possible. Though it would be nice if others companies than Oracle understood the extent of this technological leap. Actually there is only one: shopify which invest in tru

Let's hope this takes off: https://github.com/abertschi/graalphp