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I have nearly 30 years of professional experience and my intuition is pretty reliable. If HHVM wasn't what runs the largest PHP app in the world, things would h

by kolev 13y ago

I have nearly 30 years of professional experience and my intuition is pretty reliable. If HHVM wasn't what runs the largest PHP app in the world, things would have been much different. Hack brings many language people that Zend for one reason or another didn't not deliver all these years.

smsm42 13y ago
Blue whale is the largest mammal on the planet, but that doesn't mean eating nothing but krill is a good idea for every mammal. Everybody has different needs and different capabilities, so "Facebook does it" and "everybody does it" are quite different.
- kolev 13y ago
  As a side note, krill is pretty nutritious - just not widely available to all mammals.
coldtea 13y ago
>I have nearly 30 years of professional experience and my intuition is pretty reliable Any other examples of it panning correctly? In any case, let's check back in 2 years. I doubt Hack/HHVM will have more than 20% adoption even then. Criteria: Number of hosting providers supporting it. Number of posts on HN from startups using it. Number of relevant community (forum and blog posts, contributors etc) Number of new projects written for it (GitHub) Number of new books appearing for it. Rank in the Tiobe programming language index.