My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress

I Don’t Know Rust. My AI Is Rewriting PHP in It Anyway.

A few nights ago I watched my terminal print out a 26 KB WordPress front page — Phargo Test Site, 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.