Using PHP without using PHP

Let it be no secret that PHP disguists me to no end. (Not really, but I'd just like to not have to learn YAL).

So I've seen Volta and Phalanger and there appears to be potential for some interesting synergy. Volta can compile CIL to JS whilst Phalanger can compile PHP to CIL.

So Volta makes you platform agnostic on the client-side, but still hangs onto .Net on the server-side, as I understand it.

In the cases where you wished you could've used .Net on the server-side, but could'nt, you may wish you could target PHP with*CIL instead of targetting CIL with PHP.

It is probably not at the top of the agenda, from Microsofts point of view, to make CIL and libraries platform agnostic, though. But for some small subset of libraries, it would be interesting to be able to deploy .Net applications on PHP server-side systems.

Here's to hoping someone has done, or will do, this - with or without Volta.