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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Executing PHP SAPI/runtime from Golang/Rust
From: thomas@nunninger.info (Thomas Nunninger)

Hey,

Am 14.08.22 um 14:29 schrieb Paul Dragoonis:
> Hey,
> 
> So one thing that keeps me up at night (for a while now) is resisting the
> urge not to venture down a rabbithole of writing code which is loading the
> PHP runtime from Rust/Golang (up to MINIT)
> 
> And then at RINIT time, we load the right SAPI and pass across the SERVER
> vars that's needed for it..
> 
> Here is a use case example. Golang concurrency model on the front, and it
> can execute PHP CLI SAPI or HTTP SAPI on the back.
> 
> Moreover if you're looking at reasons people have previously or currently
> moving away from PHP to other languages, due to limitations like pure async
> or concurrency stuff .. then perhaps a new FRONTEND which can execute the
> PHP runtime on the backend would be solving some things.
> 
> I appreciate this isnt a unique idea and maybe someone else from internals
> has raised this before .. but I wanted to raise the topic to check the
> viability of this if it is possible, and what blockers are in our way,
> currently, if it's not even possible to share SAPI calls from another
> language runtime.

I'm not sure about the internals you mention. Are you looking for 
something like https://roadrunner.dev/

"RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer, 
and process manager written in Golang."

Best regards
Thomas