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This is pretty much the same reason that PHP is much maligned - it certainly has gotchas but they're not so much dangerous than, say, the C++ gotchas... When ev
by munk-a 6y ago
This is pretty much the same reason that PHP is much maligned - it certainly has gotchas but they're not so much dangerous than, say, the C++ gotchas... When everyone is able to "have a go" at a tool they'll all abuse it in their special way to get things done and good on them for doing it since if every data problem required an engineering team to solve everyone's business would grind to a halt.
- eru 6y agoYou are right about PHP vs C++. But C++ is too easy a target. I dislike PHP just as much as the next guy, but I am quite impressed with how Hack turned out. It's Facebook's improved PHP. See eg https://hacklang.org/ https://hacklang.org/ It's not that Hack is a good language in absolute terms. But I think it's about the best language they could have come up with when starting from PHP. (For a better comparison instead of C++, but still in similar spirit to C++, perhaps take D.)