> I wonder why ... Facebook is building a JVM backend of their PHP compiler . For fun, it seems. Facebook also built a PyPy backend[1], and even their own VM[2

> I wonder why ... Facebook is building a JVM backend of their PHP compiler . For fun, it seems. Facebook also built a PyPy backend[1], and even their own VM[2]. [1] http://morepypy.blogspot.ca/2012/07/hello-everyone.html http://morepypy.blogspot.ca/2012/07/hello-everyone.html [2] https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/tree/master/src/runtime/vm https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/tree/master/src/runti...