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> With this release, we no longer aim to be compatible with PHP. Looks like a big release! I'm curious -- is anyone actually using HHVM, either in production o

by johnmaguire2013 8y ago

> With this release, we no longer aim to be compatible with PHP. Looks like a big release! I'm curious -- is anyone actually using HHVM, either in production or for personal use?

chrisseaton 8y ago
> is anyone actually using HHVM Aren't Facebook using it?
- johnmaguire2013 8y ago
  Besides Facebook...
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Gaelan 8y ago
Wikipedia was (but is moving off now).
- jey 8y ago
  What are they moving to?
  - KenanSulayman 8y ago
    Plain PHP (php7). As of now they're still on HHVM though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version.
vajrabum 8y ago
Box did and probably still does.
krapp 8y ago
I was going to make a HN clone in Hack, but gave up because there was no real community around the language, I couldn't find decent hosting and documentation was sparse. It's a good language, especially if you're one of those people who like PHP except for the few irritating things Hack fixes, it just seems like it died before it could get a good community around it.
deftnerd 8y ago
I will be forever grateful for Hack spurring some huge improvements in PHP from the 5 to the 7 branch when they were pretty compatible with each other. I just don't see a reason to follow them on this journey since they decided not to be compatible with PHP back in 3.3.
lclarkmichalek 8y ago
I think Slack does: https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329 https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329
smt88 8y ago
Some WordPress hosts were using it
- kyriakos 8y ago
  But with this release it will no longer be compatible.
wink 8y ago
At some point we made sure that phpMyFAQ works on HHVM - but afaik we never really got any feedback that anyone's actually using it, but we're not on the same level of users as phpMyAdmin for example :). And with this direction it will not be advertised or checked any more in the future either.

> With this release, we no longer aim to be compatible with PHP. Looks like a big release! I'm curious -- is anyone actually using HHVM, either in production or for personal use?

chrisseaton 8y ago

> is anyone actually using HHVM Aren't Facebook using it?

johnmaguire2013 8y ago
Besides Facebook...
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  [deleted]

Gaelan 8y ago

Wikipedia was (but is moving off now).

jey 8y ago
What are they moving to?
- KenanSulayman 8y ago
  Plain PHP (php7). As of now they're still on HHVM though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version.

vajrabum 8y ago

Box did and probably still does.

krapp 8y ago

I was going to make a HN clone in Hack, but gave up because there was no real community around the language, I couldn't find decent hosting and documentation was sparse. It's a good language, especially if you're one of those people who like PHP except for the few irritating things Hack fixes, it just seems like it died before it could get a good community around it.

deftnerd 8y ago

I will be forever grateful for Hack spurring some huge improvements in PHP from the 5 to the 7 branch when they were pretty compatible with each other. I just don't see a reason to follow them on this journey since they decided not to be compatible with PHP back in 3.3.

lclarkmichalek 8y ago

I think Slack does: https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329 https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329

smt88 8y ago

Some WordPress hosts were using it

kyriakos 8y ago
But with this release it will no longer be compatible.

wink 8y ago

At some point we made sure that phpMyFAQ works on HHVM - but afaik we never really got any feedback that anyone's actually using it, but we're not on the same level of users as phpMyAdmin for example :). And with this direction it will not be advertised or checked any more in the future either.