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Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language of the Future

• SixSigma 13y ago
  > "You can think of Hack as a new version of PHP" > "Ironically," he says, "its chief advantage is how little it differs from PHP." I'd probably be keeping quite about that
  • drl 13y ago
    Yes, a lot of people seem to agree with you - going by the comments on the article!
• zimpenfish 13y ago
  "The closest thing, they say, is Haskell, a statically typed language that provides a way of executing code relatively quickly." Type-annotated PHP =~= Haskell? In which universe?
• Luuseens 13y ago
  According to the article, the main thing that slows devs down is compiling the code? How insightful.