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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by mattdeboard on Monday November 26, 2018 @07:52PM (#18538311)
Yeah buddy. https://servo.org/

Also there is already amazing work for Rust and WASM https://rustwasm.github.io/book/

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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by jayflux on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:05PM (#18538399)
Servo uses spidermonkey
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by mattdeboard on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:25PM (#18538511)
Oh, I see. Thanks. I assumed the JS engine was written in Rust!
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by earenndil on Monday November 26, 2018 @09:53PM (#18538936)
Spidermonkey will probably never get rewritten in rust, as the safety guarantees would be precluded by JIT.
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by bpicolo on Monday November 26, 2018 @10:16PM (#18539031)
That's not entirely the case - there's definitely research / work being done in this area.

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new...

https://github.com/nbp/holyjit

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