jphp

> Even my preferred IDE, the Jetbrains suite which I love, are resource hogs Ok, so you're saying that because a large, complex desktop application uses a lot of memory and is also written in Java that therefore the JVM is a memory hog? Well then, given how much of a memory hog Chrome is, I guess we can all shitcan C/C++ as well. Look, in any reasonable apples-to-apples comparison the JVM blows anything PHP has out of the water, including haxe, hiphop, etc. And even if you write a PHP-to-bytecode compiler (e.g. https://github.com/jphp-group/jphp) then there are certain limitations to how fast and efficient any dynamically typed language can be. Look at all the shit V8 has to go through to do field lookups: https://v8.dev/blog/fast-properties And then there's so much useless request-level overhead to PHP, even with pre-cached bytecode, you

For those wondering, this is not a Truffle/Graal initiative[1]. They don't seem to offer access to PHP C Extensions. I wonder if this will be easy to do when Sulong[2] is ready. But this is great to see another project towards the goal of one VM to rule them all. [1] From https://github.com/jphp-compiler/jphp/wiki/For-Contributors : > Our project uses the ASM java library to generate Java VM bytecode [2] https://github.com/graalvm/sulong

The features page is interesting: https://github.com/jphp-compiler/jphp/wiki/Features > Unicode for strings (UTF-16, like in Java) This isn't an implementation of PHP, then. PHP strings are binary, and making them suddenly unicode would break much existing code unless there's some hacky workaround in use. Also, UTF-16 is horrible. > What JPHP does not yet support? > Importing namespaced functions (php 5.6) Surely that's not the only thing unsupported? Then I see this: https://github.com/jphp-compiler/jphp/wiki/Core-Extension ...so, it doesn't have PHP's standard set of functions, huh? As noted below, this doesn't use PHP's normal request model, and apparently now it doesn't have PHP's standard library, or even have the same data types (Unicode strings). Is this really PHP? Edit: oh, I see, it also has standard PHP stuff here (though a lot