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While I eagerly look forward to PHP7, you can get more than PHP7 speed now with HHVM, and HHVM has never been easier to use. But competition is good, great act
by ck2 12y ago
While I eagerly look forward to PHP7, you can get more than PHP7 speed now with HHVM, and HHVM has never been easier to use.
But competition is good, great actually. HHVM recently folded in JIT regex like PHP7, so they are copying from each other.
- implicit 12y agoHack is also a substantially better language than PHP. It, directly or indirectly, fixes a lot of horrible behaviour. PHP's absurd comparison operators, for instance, are safely usable once you drop them into a statically typed environment.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoHack is merely PHP with poorly-enforced type hints Unlike PHP, Hack lets you, nay, encourages you, to turn off type checking in places
- chupy 12y agoI don't believe it's just that. One of the coolest features which if it is used properly actually speeds up the response times of a normal blocking php script /app flow is the as async feature: http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.async.php http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.async.php.