My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress
A developer created a PHP interpreter called Phargo written in Rust using AI assistance, despite having no prior knowledge of the language or compiler design. The project uses the official PHP test suite as an objective benchmark to measure the AI-generated code's accuracy.
A few nights ago I watched my terminal print out a 26 KB WordPress front page — <title>Phargo Test Site</title> , the block-library CSS, "Hello world!" pulled from a SQLite database, and a clean </html> at the bottom. Completely unremarkable output, except for one detail: the PHP engine that served it contains zero lines of PHP's actual source code . It's a from-scratch interpreter written in Rust.
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