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47 pointsdavedevelopment11y ago21 comments

21 comments

danpalmer11y ago

Why would you put a joke language that people use to troll other developers, and Brainfuck together into the same project?

namesakes11y ago

Next up, PHP compiler written in brainfuck

sponno11y ago

Next thing you know they will be compiling PHP with PHP.

juriansluiman11y ago

There is PHP parser written in PHP [0], a PHP VM implementation (running PHP code with PHP) [1] and a AOT compiler for PHP which is written in PHP, for a subset of the PHP language [2]. So yeah, it is already happening.

[0] https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser

[1] https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHPPHP

[2] https://github.com/google/recki-ct

alexbilbie11y ago

https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHPPHP

sponno11y ago

Heehee

old_sound11y ago

Also https://github.com/google/recki-ct

kyriakos11y ago

If for every PHP-bashing comment on HN, people would rather write one more line of open source code, the world would have been a better place.

TazeTSchnitzel11y ago

Or spent time trying to improve PHP.

the_solution11y ago

What would be the point of this? Any significant improvements would make it a different language.

TazeTSchnitzel11y ago

I can't agree. It's not fundamentally broken.

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