This is logically just nonsense. So the php compiles to C++ now? The devs still write in php, they don't move to another language (well they use a somewhat rest

This is logically just nonsense. So the php compiles to C++ now? The devs still write in php, they don't move to another language (well they use a somewhat restricted set of php, but a lot of places do that anyway for various reasons). It is as silly as saying anyone programming in a JVM language is just programming in Java, or anyone using a language which compiles to machine code is just using assembler. (implicitly of course!)