PHP 8.5 reimplemented from scratch in Rust: bytecode VM, cycle-collecting GC, native mysqli/PDO. Runs the full WordPress core test suite at oracle parity on real MySQL, plus Composer, PHPUnit, Doctrine, Symfony. Current front: performance (WP suite ~1.77x the reference CPU).
programming-language rust php wordpress interpreter reimplementation language-runtime phpt bytecode-vm php-runtime
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