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| HHVM | Hack | |
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| 24 | 1 | |
| 17,996 | 170 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 16 hours ago | - | |
| Hack | Hack | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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HHVM
- Should I Rust or should I Go
- HHVM – a virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack
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Hack Lang: Contexts and Capabilities
Learned of this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37186869 it was posted 2 years ago to no discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30291459 seems far more interesting than that.
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/blob/master/hphp/hack/doc/H... appears to be where it was proposed, and has more background than the current docs.
- Has Meta/Facebook stopped developing hacklang?
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Hacklang is no longer opensource?
also fredemmott is not working on it any more https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/9376
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Interesting ocaml mention in buck2 by fb
Hack and Flow are also written in OCaml.
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Buck2, a large scale build tool written in Rust by Meta, is now available
Here is a commit generated by clippy fix without Cargo involved: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/commit/efea2c4dcc12fdbf3a2e3ce383bbdca2de5f93a9
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Taking Hack Seriously - Slack Engineering
Compared to PHP, with its visible community, Hack/HHVM does seem like a dead-end technology. But it’s very actively maintained and it powers the largest website on the planet. It definitely doesn’t make sense for the average PHP developer to switch (and the article steers clear of evangelising) but it also definitely doesn’t make sense for us to switch back.
- please don't kill me
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I know that's the name of the language, I'm asking about the first P
PHP is nearly as old as the web. Change the conversation and say: I use Hack on the Hip Hop Virtual Machine
Hack
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Fact: Facebook was first written on PHP
The original spec is basically a who-is-who of lolphps: https://github.com/facebookarchive/hack-langspec/blob/master/spec/23-differences-from-php.md
What are some alternatives?
HippyVM - HippyVM - an implementation of the PHP language in RPython
ext-openswoole - Programmatic server for PHP with async IO, coroutines and fibers
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
Laravel - The Laravel Framework.
fbshipit - Copy commits between repositories · git → git, git → hg, hg → hg, or hg → git
haxe - Haxe - The Cross-Platform Toolkit
react-relay - Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.
ent - An entity framework for Go
FrameworkBenchmarks - Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
phpdesktop - Develop desktop GUI applications using PHP, HTML5, JavaScript and SQLite
discourse_docker - A Docker image for Discourse