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hack was created at meta for meta...

• nine_k 1y ago
  Still Hack and HVVM are open source and anyone who cares can use them. Go was also created at Google and for Google first and foremost, but ended up wildly popular in general. (React was also created at Meta and for Meta. Same with Pytorch.)
  • nikolayasdf123 1y ago
    cmon. nobody in their right mind is using hack outside of Meta at least single example in open source or in enterprise who is running Hack? haven't seen even one in 8 years
    • nine_k 1y ago
      My point exactly.
    • tuan 1y ago
      https://slack.engineering/streamlining-your-workflow-debugging-for-hhvm/#:~:text=Here%20at%20Slack%2C%20we%20use,day%2Dto%2Dday%20workflow. https://slack.engineering/streamlining-your-workflow-debuggi...
      • nikolayasdf123 1y ago
        wow. no way... slack is on hack! is this toy project for them or some sub-system? hard to believe. interesting if this is true!
      • 90s_dev 1y ago
        > which is especially useful when writing strongly-typed code to support variable payload structures in API calls. I shouldn't be surprised, that's like the ideal scenario for PHP. So of course they added strong typing to it.