Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by bos » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:07 PM UTC

Hack: a new programming language for HHVM
code.facebook.com

Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by octo_t » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:15 PM UTC

See this presentation[1] from Strange Loop 2013 about some design decisions on Hack.

[1] - https://github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2013/blob/master/s...

Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by bos » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:20 PM UTC

I'm the manager of the team that developed Hack, and I'm sitting here with some of the language designers. Happy to answer your questions.

Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by habosa » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:20 PM UTC

Facebook is always pushing PHP to new places. Would it be too broad to say PHP is the worst thing that ever happened to Facebook's engineering but Facebook's engineering is the best thing that ever happened to PHP?

Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by fmitchell0 » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

Very excited to play with this. While I know many poo-poo PHP, it still is a pretty decent gateway language.

If these type of innovations introduce hobby programmers into more professional practices and concepts, I'm all for it.

Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

bos wrote: post #3

I'm the manager of the team that developed Hack, and I'm sitting here with some of the language designers. Happy to answer your questions.

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Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by programminggeek » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

I'm really intrigued by the concept of array Shapes. I actually implemented that for Obvious and use it for type checking hashes in ruby with Contracts. https://github.com/RetroMocha/obvious/blob/master/lib/obviou...

It's cool to see the same idea implemented in Hack. I don't know if anyone at FB has even heard of Obvious, but it's cool that they had the same idea in their language.

Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by robin_reala » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:24 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #6

bos wrote: post #3

I'm the manager of the team that developed Hack, and I'm sitting here with some of the language designers. Happy to answer your questions.

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Presumably because it brings them some value?

Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by rarestblog » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

bos wrote: post #3

I'm the manager of the team that developed Hack, and I'm sitting here with some of the language designers. Happy to answer your questions.

What IDE do people use for Hack?

Re: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

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Post by bos » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #6

bos wrote: post #3

I'm the manager of the team that developed Hack, and I'm sitting here with some of the language designers. Happy to answer your questions.

[deleted]

We wanted to preserve our investment in PHP, while introducing new capabilities and safety that make rapid development at scale less daunting.