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I've been following the peachpie project for a while. The effort they put in is very impressive.

They choose to heavily modify the C#/VB compiler (Roslyn) to handle php syntax. Microsoft should be investing time into helping them succeed, it would be great to see the Roslyn compiler platform become more broadly used.

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Microsoft is doing quite a bit of supporting, can't complain there :)

It's so smart to do that, Roslyn provides a good design, keeping a rich syntax tree that can help for language tooling (auto-completion), so Language Server for VSCode is for free and all backends too.

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