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What Facebook use these days is a long way away from PHP. Hack is quite different in various non-trivial ways. The more typical “99th percentile” PHP is not us
by BillinghamJ 8y ago
What Facebook use these days is a long way away from PHP. Hack is quite different in various non-trivial ways.
The more typical “99th percentile” PHP is not used by any of the biggest tech companies to deliver their core products.
- ehnto 8y agoPHP7 has closed the gap on Hack quite a bit.
- geerlingguy 8y agoYeah; the few people crazy enough to try to switch to Hack from vanilla PHP in the past few years just went to PHP 7, which is faster and fixed a number of the gripes devs had with PHP.
- lucideer 8y ago> Hack is quite different in various non-trivial ways [citation needed]. In what non-trivial ways is Hack different to PHP? Of the three distinguishing features highlighted on https://hacklang.org/ https://hacklang.org/, PHP has two (the exception is generics, which I don't think PHP has added... yet).
- conradfr 8y agoHack has async.
- reitanqild 8y ago> The more typical “99th percentile” PHP What does this mean?