> Seriously, in what world do we need a rust compiler in php?

This is described in the README:

> Useful if you need to compile Rust on a shared hosting server from 2008 where the only installed runtime is PHP.

So I guess that world? I mean there's working around a problem and then there's working around a problem...

It would be amusing if, in such a highly limited environment, the compiled binary was still unusable due to restrictions on setting the executable flag.