kphp VS PHP-Parser

It has a lot of limitations but KPHP is a PHP compiler that could fit your needs.

There are also https://github.com/VKCOM/kphp, but it lag quite a bit behind php

JIT is still so full of bugs for anything mildly complex, most static analysers don’t run on it without some weird behaviour and crashes (segfaults, core dumps, etc) that are hard for the average PHP dev to debug. It was a nice idea to help expand PHP to non-web applications but something like what’s being described here where code is transpiled except to a compiled language (like https://github.com/VKCOM/kphp) would be the best bet imo.

We invented a new concept of function colors and implemented it in our KPHP compiler.

Since 2013 we have a php 2 c++ compiler, kphp — it was a hip idea back then, and Facebook had something similar with hiphop

Server side they use kphp (Probably a modified version) https://github.com/VKCOM/kphp

You can also refer to [*PHP vs KPHP vs C++*](https://vkcom.github.io/kphp/various-topics/walk-through-php-kphp-cpp.html).

*[GitHub page](https://github.com/vkcom/kphp)* | *[Web-site (documentation)](https://vkcom.github.io/kphp/)*

For our projects, we need a fast PHP parser. We used the wonderful php-parser written on Golang for a long time, but its author unfortunately froze the development and we had to do a fork and add support for PHP 8. And recently, our parser began to fully support PHP 8.0-8.2! 🎉

Unfortunately, there are problems with using Go for parsing, it is a parsing library. We use https://github.com/z7zmey/php-parser which now fully supports PHP 7.4, but the developer is currently not active and it is not known when PHP 8 will be supported (most likely we will do it ourselves soon).