THT: A modern re-design of PHP (v0.8.1 Beta)
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// PHP in_array('needle', $hayStack)
// THT $hayStack.contains('needle')
This looks more or less like a new language ? It must be amazing amount of time and energy to rewrite PHP in to this.
I don't see the benefits. I understand the Facebook's HHVM had some. (https://hhvm.com/)
Or Swoole (https://openswoole.com/) has it.
But i'm not clear of THT (also typical apple vs oranges benchamrkTM included).
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The benchmark might seem like apples-to-oranges, but they both do templating & routing, which is what is being tested.
I also address this on the benchmark page:
Why compare a language to a framework?
1) THT takes a “batteries included” approach by providing essential web framework features.
2) Some might be worried that running a transpiled language would be too slow to run in production, and Laravel is arguably the best example of a production-ready PHP framework.
Also, yes it is essentially a new language. I don't expect anyone to rewrite large PHP applications in it, but people might consider it for new projects.