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Yes, I can easily imagine even people outside facebook adding to the HipHop effort in adding other languages. Easily imagined and easily executed aren't the sam
by ivankirigin 17y ago
Yes, I can easily imagine even people outside facebook adding to the HipHop effort in adding other languages. Easily imagined and easily executed aren't the same thing, unfortunately. By the way, I'm out of my element when it comes to compilers.
- mbreese 17y agoI can imagine it really being a very open project with outside contributors, but I'm not sure that the exact same tools will work with other languages. For example, I think that dealing with something like Python would require a completely different set of translations because it is mainly dictionary based. That's not to say that doing an X to C++ converter isn't possible or a good idea, I just think that the HipHop techniques may not apply to other languages very easily.