TypePHP Brings PHP to Native Code

TypePHP is a compelling bridge between PHP’s productivity and systems-level deployment, though its biggest wins will come in typed, compute-heavy workloads rather than arbitrary Composer applications.

• –Supports binary, extension, and shared-library build modes
• –Self-hosted entirely in PHP, with compiled output eliminating interpreter startup and warm-up
• –Official benchmarks show typed containers approaching C++ performance in numeric workloads
• –Requires PHP 8.4–8.5, C++17 tooling, PHP embed libraries, and careful compatibility checks
• –GPLv3 licensing and native binaries make it interesting for performance-sensitive, source-protected deployments