PeachPie Compiler: Compile and run PHP on top of .NET runtime

https://www.peachpie.io/

by lemper • 2 years ago

69 20 2 years ago

I highly recommend paying attention to https://docs.peachpie.io/compatibility-status/ -- there is still a lot of work to be done, and they are comparing to a really old version of PHP. There have been a lot of new features since 8.0.

msavara• 2 years ago

Amateur here. This is good for what? Why somebody should use this instead of normal?

chrisandchris• 2 years ago

IMHO, besides the fun to create such a project (and all the thibgs you learn while doing it), it's not for much. It tries to bring a technology somewhere (presuambly the desktop, as asp.net and PHP are already comparable) it's not designed for - which will bring you in trouble sooner or later. It's like JavaScript on the server, it's ok but there are languages better suited for this environment.

It's much faster to learn C# in the long term than to run PHP on top of .Net.

bob10292• 2 years ago

C# has poor man's PHP baked in these days:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

And, it's getting better over time:

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/4935

This is essentially how I respond to web requests in my codebases right now:

  var table = $@"<table>
    <tr><th>Name</th></tr>
    {string.Join('\n', items.Select(i => $"<tr><td>{i.Name}</td></tr>"))}
  </table>";

Quothling• 2 years ago

I'm not sure why anyone would use it, but it was probably a fun project to make. I do think the statement on their landing page which reads: "Compile and run PHP on top the modern, secure and highly performant .NET runtime" perhaps is a little disingenuous. This might just be me, but I read it as though they imply that PHP isn't those things, which would be a silly statement to make in 2024.

bpbp-mango• 2 years ago

Migrating a legacy PHP code-base to .net maybe

hparadiz• 2 years ago

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.

mnau• 2 years ago

we have attempted to use it for that, but it was really hard and we ended up rewriting from scratch.

The activity graph on GitHub says it is mostly dead. There is some activity, but at best it is in maintenance mode. It used to be sponsored, but not anymore IIRC

https://github.com/peachpiecompiler/peachpie/graphs/contribu...

diggan• 2 years ago

From the README:

Project goals: Both-way interoperability, Full .NET compatibility, Security, Cross-platform development, Increased performance - https://github.com/peachpiecompiler/peachpie

So seems they're aiming to use the PHP language but on a different runtime, for the listed reasons. Sounds kind of out there, but seems at least the .Net Foundation supports it, I'm guessing for the same reasons.

SamuelAdams• 2 years ago

May also be useful for creating automatic language support from a single codebase. For example, Amazon uses JSII to build a typescript library into Python, Go, dotnet, etc.

Maybe this tooling will help add PHP to that list.

That way you are not maintaining 6 codebases.

https://github.com/aws/jsii

unnouinceput• 2 years ago

For obfuscation reasons mainly. Hide your genius code from a php base so your IP is not poached/discovered by Amazon and the likes who love to get brilliant open source made project, move a line and call it their own.

hu3• 2 years ago

Some might dislike your snark but obfuscation is a good use for this.

nurettin• 2 years ago

You have a php project, and you want to use .net libraries.

PeachPie Compiler: Compile and run PHP on top of .NET runtime

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