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Hack is awesome, but we decided to go with PHP 7 and this choice was primarily made because of lack of tooling on the Hack side. Things like New Relic are not a

Hack is awesome, but we decided to go with PHP 7 and this choice was primarily made because of lack of tooling on the Hack side. Things like New Relic are not available and these type of things do matter a lot when it comes down to choosing the programming language. I must say that PHP 7 is a great language nowadays. Most of the modern concepts are baked into a language or are about to be developed. At some point, I wish Hack and PHP merge into a single language in the future, somewhat similar to what happened to Node and iojs. I'm not sure if Hack is going to be around in 5 years, but I'm pretty confident about PHP. I'd definitely love to see more articles about Hack and people's experience with using it in production.

tomschlick 10y ago
With the changes in PHP 7.0/7.1 & the powerful frameworks (Laravel & Symfony), PHP has made a dramatic turn for the better in the past ~3 years. I work with Laravel daily and it is actually an enjoyable experience using PHP. Most of the hate for PHP comes from the PHP 4 days, but we are well past that and charging ahead with featureful yearly releases.
dailymotioneng 10y ago
We decided to go with PHP7 too instead of Hack. This is a blog post that explain our migration : http://engineering.dailymotion.com/php-7-deployment-at-dailymotion/ http://engineering.dailymotion.com/php-7-deployment-at-daily...