Phalanger was discontinued in favor of the more modern PeachPie compiler, which utilizes the Roslyn API.

The project web page claims considerable performance benefits over a 32-bit Windows version of PHP.

A project involving Phalanger was mentored by the Mono team during the Google Summer of Code program in 2008.

[6] Early in 2008, UK Content Management vendor Jadu partnered with the Prague-based team to improve communication between .NET and the Phalanger compiler.

In addition to maintenance and growth of the project, Devsense is providing Visual Studio integration of Phalanger for the community.