PHP on Dynamic Language Runtime

The Microsoft .NET Framework was from the beginning designed to support broad range of languages on a Common Language Runtime (CLR). CLR provides shared services such as garbage collection, JIT and tools integration. The other benefit is that these languages can work together and use libraries written in any of them as well as .NET Base class library (BCL).
The CLR didn’t have the support for dynamic languages. Their dynamic nature makes the compilation uneasy and places high demands on the language runtime. Unlike static languages as C# which don’t require runtime support other than CLR itself.
The new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) makes a difference. It adds a lot of support for dynamic languages on .NET, that makes implementing the dynamic languages much easier and it also enables the interoperability between the dynamic languages built on DLR and standard static languages on .NET.

Publications

  • Miloslav Beňo
    Implementing the Dynamic Languages using DLR Technology, Charles University in Prague, 2010

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