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Wow, that's almost the same thing that Typescript is to Javascript. Is all of that openly available to outsiders? If it is, I think I might to rethink my stance

Wow, that's almost the same thing that Typescript is to Javascript. Is all of that openly available to outsiders? If it is, I think I might to rethink my stance of php that I had for the last 15 years.

notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I don't know why people dislike PHP. It's a lot like React (which is so popular and beloved). I mean, React was developed at Facebook...
vjeux 5y ago
All of the language features in ES6 / Flow / JSX that Facebook has been pushing through as part of the React ecosystem have been pioneered by Hack/HHVM at Facebook and then ported very closely to the JavaScript ecosystem.
klodolph 5y ago
It is available. My understanding is that, unlike PHP, it really only has first-class support on Linux. You can run it on macOS, but you may have to fix some issues yourself. I've been tempted to use it for things like static website generation, since it has the "XHP" stuff, which is like JavaScript's JSX... and I'd undoubtedly prefer writing code in Hack to writing code in JavaScript. https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction JSX is based on XHP, of course, not the other way around.
- fredemmott 5y ago
  The warnings about MacOS are mostly being cautious, as I don't think anyone actually runs it in production. I work with open source Hack code a lot, and I almost always use the MacOS binaries instead of Linux for development. For my workflows, it's more that there's two major missing things - I'm not seeing random issues. The big things are: - a lot of the profiling features are Linux-only - the mcrouter extension is Linux-only. If you're using memcached, this extension is useful even without mcrouterd, as it provides a true async (Awaitable) client.
that_guy_iain 5y ago
That feature is also part of the PHP language. Also as far as I know Hack is available to everyone.

notsureaboutpg 5y ago

I don't know why people dislike PHP. It's a lot like React (which is so popular and beloved). I mean, React was developed at Facebook...

vjeux 5y ago

All of the language features in ES6 / Flow / JSX that Facebook has been pushing through as part of the React ecosystem have been pioneered by Hack/HHVM at Facebook and then ported very closely to the JavaScript ecosystem.

klodolph 5y ago

It is available. My understanding is that, unlike PHP, it really only has first-class support on Linux. You can run it on macOS, but you may have to fix some issues yourself. I've been tempted to use it for things like static website generation, since it has the "XHP" stuff, which is like JavaScript's JSX... and I'd undoubtedly prefer writing code in Hack to writing code in JavaScript. https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction JSX is based on XHP, of course, not the other way around.

fredemmott 5y ago
The warnings about MacOS are mostly being cautious, as I don't think anyone actually runs it in production. I work with open source Hack code a lot, and I almost always use the MacOS binaries instead of Linux for development. For my workflows, it's more that there's two major missing things - I'm not seeing random issues. The big things are: - a lot of the profiling features are Linux-only - the mcrouter extension is Linux-only. If you're using memcached, this extension is useful even without mcrouterd, as it provides a true async (Awaitable) client.

that_guy_iain 5y ago

That feature is also part of the PHP language. Also as far as I know Hack is available to everyone.