Writing the PHP Virtual Machine in Rust (With a Lot of Help from AI)
Détecter les régressions visuelles dans la CI avec Playwright et Docker Voir tous les articles 29/07/2026 8min. php compilation ia rust Writing the PHP Virtual Machine in Rust (with a lot of help from AI) A few years ago, if someone had told me to rewrite the PHP engine in Rust, I would probably have laughed 😆. Not because it is technically impossible, but because such a project traditionally requires years of reading C code, reverse engineering decades of optimizations, and an intimidating amount of perseverance. Today, Large Language Models have changed how we approach ambitious engineering projects.
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- ▪Not because it is technically impossible, but because such a project traditionally requires years of reading C code, reverse engineering decades of optimizations, and an intimidating amount of perseverance.
- ▪Today, Large Language Models have changed how we approach ambitious engineering projects.
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Détecter les régressions visuelles dans la CI avec Playwright et Docker Voir tous les articles 29/07/2026 8min. php compilation ia rust Writing the PHP Virtual Machine in Rust (with a lot of help from AI) A few years ago, if someone had told me to rewrite the PHP engine in Rust, I would probably have laughed 😆. Not because it is technically impossible, but because such a project traditionally requires years of reading C code, reverse engineering decades of optimizations, and an intimidating amount of perseverance. Today, Large Language Models have changed how we approach ambitious engineering projects.
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