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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:06:57 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] self-hosting (compiling context) PHP
From: thomas.pakkanen@posteo.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Thomas_Kr=C3=BCger?=)

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:
> 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?