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So coincidentally I work at Facebook and know a bunch of these guys pretty well, but I don't actually interact with the Hack stuff at all (as I work in infrastr

So coincidentally I work at Facebook and know a bunch of these guys pretty well, but I don't actually interact with the Hack stuff at all (as I work in infrastructure doing flash and network stuff, primarily). I recently played around with the Open Source hack stuff and I installed it on my VPS. Has anyone else played with Hack in a productionish environment? I'm just wondering what deployments and stuff are actually looking like in the world outside of Facebook. p.s. tutorial that really exposed me to hack is here: http://hacklang.org/tutorial http://hacklang.org/tutorial

adamors 13y ago
Considering that you can convert PHP files to Hack by just changing the opening tag, I think it would be very similar to the way HHVM is used currently.
- alexgartrell 13y ago
  Sorry, to be clear I'm more curious about how it's integrated with version control and how things like MVC are done. I really haven't got a clue. For that matter, are people mostly using HHVM via fast-cgi?
  - adamors 13y ago
    Oh I see. I think the best answer to your question is the Hack example site https://github.com/hhvm/hack-example-site https://github.com/hhvm/hack-example-site. It contains the source for the Hack site along with build instructions. Although it's not an MVC site, they do a lot of inline HTML ...
  - kmavm 13y ago
    Yeah, almost everyone in the real world is using it via FastCGI. People have a huge investment in the configuration and operation of their existing http server (nginx or apache).
  - dan15 13y ago
    I work at Facebook as well, but mainly in JavaScript so I haven't done a lot of PHP either :) You could use a common PHP framework like FuelPHP, Laravel or Kohana. I'm not sure which frameworks are 100% compatible with HHVM, but I think they're all getting quite close to 100% (or may even be at 100% with the 3.0 release). It's fine to mix PHP and Hack in the one project, so you could use a PHP framework and use Hack just for your code.

adamors 13y ago

Considering that you can convert PHP files to Hack by just changing the opening tag, I think it would be very similar to the way HHVM is used currently.

alexgartrell 13y ago
Sorry, to be clear I'm more curious about how it's integrated with version control and how things like MVC are done. I really haven't got a clue. For that matter, are people mostly using HHVM via fast-cgi?
- adamors 13y ago
  Oh I see. I think the best answer to your question is the Hack example site https://github.com/hhvm/hack-example-site https://github.com/hhvm/hack-example-site. It contains the source for the Hack site along with build instructions. Although it's not an MVC site, they do a lot of inline HTML ...
- kmavm 13y ago
  Yeah, almost everyone in the real world is using it via FastCGI. People have a huge investment in the configuration and operation of their existing http server (nginx or apache).
- dan15 13y ago
  I work at Facebook as well, but mainly in JavaScript so I haven't done a lot of PHP either :) You could use a common PHP framework like FuelPHP, Laravel or Kohana. I'm not sure which frameworks are 100% compatible with HHVM, but I think they're all getting quite close to 100% (or may even be at 100% with the 3.0 release). It's fine to mix PHP and Hack in the one project, so you could use a PHP framework and use Hack just for your code.