Great questions!, I guess I didn't express myself correctly. I meant: LiteScript is designed with the Grammar https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/mast

Great questions!, I guess I didn't express myself correctly. I meant: LiteScript is designed with the Grammar https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/master/source/Grammar.lite.md https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/master/source/G... separated from the "production" of target code https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/master/source/Producer_js.lite.md https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/master/source/P... I "want" to (and think I can) add new "producer" modules other than "producer_js", but I've not even started. The idea -so far- is to compile to a node native extension http://nodejs.org/api/addons.html#addons_hello_world http://nodejs.org/api/addons.html#addons_hello_world so most C answers are: V8's With respect to PHP, I think it's simpler. The idea is to generate PHP but do not support all PHP quirks, just generate PHP code that is "js-like", (PHP mimics allmost all js functionality) and have support libs in LiteScript unifying APIS. Some things like "eval" can throw a compiler error, when the target is PHP.