I'm pleased to announce the first release of IronPHP [1]. IronPHP is a PHP compiler for the Mono (and .NET) platform.
The goals of IronPHP are: * Compatibility with PHP 5 * Speed and efficiency: let's beat the C version * Portability: run where ever Mono runs * Extend PHP to allow access to .NET assemblies The first release can compile a portion of the procedural subset of PHP 5. IronPHP is still at an experimental stage and undergoing heavy development. Don't expect much beyond the bare basics to work. My immediate goal in releasing it is to get some more hands involved in the project. I'm presently working on the 0.0.2 release which will feature a new lexical scanner (rewritten from scratch) and a jay based parser (instead of the hand coded recursive descent parser). If you're interested in joining the IronPHP effort please read the NOTES and TODO in the tarball. This is the first release and I want to bring it to the attention of interested parties. Thus I've cross-posted it to the PHP internals and the Mono developer's list. Please respect those lists and direct further comments and discussions to the IronPHP developer's list [2]. Thanks. Ross Girshick [1] http://ironphp.sf.net [2] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php