Another article that talks about the scalability and benefits for wikipedia and facebook when the websites that most people create will never be either. You are

Another article that talks about the scalability and benefits for wikipedia and facebook when the websites that most people create will never be either. You are not going to save millions on server costs and just doesn't make sense for some personal blog on wordpress. For most cases something like php7 might make as much sense. But the author believes that what solved facebook and wikipedia's problems will solve everybody's. If HHVM and Hack are really the tools that solve your probably use it but don't go that route if you absolutely need it. Don't get burned by hype because every use case is unique. What fixes facebook's problems probably will not fix yours. But php 7 is another viable option and from what I read it performs pretty well compare to HHVM for the most common things you would use it for. Also the language got a lost of fixes for its warts (I'm not a php expert but looks like it did). tl;dr - don't blindly use tools where they are not needed and use the right tool for the job.