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It looks like this compiles PHP code to a .net binary but it doesn't support all of PHP so it's kinda useless for most projects.

Benefits of this are dubious at best. The php interpreter is already a low level C project so why replace that with .net? Makes no sense.

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A major difference will be that PeachPie produces a compiled deploy artefact, while mainstream PHP is interpreted (albeit with heavy opcode caching and a JIT in production)

> The php interpreter is already a low level C project so why replace that with .net?

You are comparing apples with pies here. PHP is a interpreted language, while .NET is a compiled target.

However, this peachpie project seems to be far from stated goal and more of a research project currently.

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