PHP moving to the JVM?

From: http://bit.ly/P8X4dd -- "Facebook are looking to move PHP onto the JVM. Why, because clock cycles cost money.  Their first approach was hiphop, a PHP to C+++ cross compiler. Now they are looking into compiling PHP to run on the multi-language VM." -- This is pretty interesting since this was the "Blue Pill / Red Pill" decision that ColdFusion engineers made a decade ago. Right now I see three tech stacks in the world 1) Microsoft 2) Java and 3) LAMP/OSS. This potentially moves LAMP into the Java stack - a pretty big shift. If FB does this, I wonder how much of the PHP community will shift into the Java camp? -Cameron ...

<cf_congratulateSelf> Back in 2000, when CF was being ported to Java,  I predicted that the general server ecosystem would come down to MSFT and Java, with everything else being left with a small slice of the market. </cf_congratulateSelf> At one point I thought PHP would be one of those things that died, since I didn't think FB was a big enough sponsor of PHP to keep it alive. Now they are big enough and smart enough to realize that keeping it alive means moving to the JVM. What is most interesting to me about it is the mlvm and the possibility that interpreted languages (like CFML) could be optimized to run at 1/3 the speed of C++. Railo is already pretty fast and far less memory-hungry than ColdFusion; I would like to see ColdFusion optimized for performance. This development moves things in the right direction. I've been looking at Scala lately, wow is that a cool language. Java without all the verbosity of Java, stripped-down and elegant. On Aug 20, 2012 12:27 PM, "Cameron Childress" <cameronc@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----