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Not surprised at the list. Hack stands out as unique to facebook. Is hack being used in other large companies? I wonder if they will ever move back to php no
by ipaddr 4y ago
Not surprised at the list. Hack stands out as unique to facebook. Is hack being used in other large companies? I wonder if they will ever move back to php now that many issues facebook had have been resolved in later versions.
- matdehaast 4y agoCould be mistaken by I think slack uses it
- tbliu 4y agoApparently Slack uses it (https://slack.engineering/hacklang-at-slack-a-better-php/ https://slack.engineering/hacklang-at-slack-a-better-php/).
- blowski 4y agoBy now, Hack has a lot of Facebook-specific features, most of which will never make their way into PHP.
- pavlov 4y agoHack has become essentially a domain-specific language for the frameworks used at Meta. They evolve together. There's no going back to PHP because there's no reason to rewrite the frameworks and give up on the flexibility afforded by being able to tweak the language to fit the framework. It's basically the same situation as Apple has with Swift. They'd never switch from Swift to C++, no matter what features were added to the language.