self-hosting (compiling context) PHP

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:

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

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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?