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I'm waiting to see someone compile and execute JavaScript in a PHP VM. They could then use this to run PHP from JavaScript from PHP.

I'd go further, but from here it's really turtles all the way down.

I had that very same idea, but personally think it would be far harder to do a JavaScript VM written in pure PHP than it is to do it this way around.

doing it in pure php would be impressive (or masochistic), but there's already http://php.net/manual/en/book.v8js.php