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Re: HHVM 3.0.0

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Post by alexgartrell »

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

Re: HHVM 3.0.0

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Post by adamors »

alexgartrell wrote: post #2

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…

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.

Re: HHVM 3.0.0

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Post by alexgartrell »

adamors wrote: post #4
alexgartrell wrote: post #2

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…

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.

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?

Re: HHVM 3.0.0

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Post by adamors »

While the release names based on rappers is quite a fun idea, I don't get why they didn't go for people who are, you know, good at hip hop. I mean 50 cent and Childish Gambino? And especially next to Em and Ghostface. Or is this a good release/bad release kind of thing?

Re: HHVM 3.0.0

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Post by adamors »

alexgartrell wrote: post #5
adamors wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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?

Oh I see. I think the best answer to your question is the 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 ...

Re: HHVM 3.0.0

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

I noticed the other day that PHP has 30% code coverage. Is HHVM working to improve that (and pass the same tests, bug for bug) or is it relying on the unit tests of frameworks and packages?

Re: HHVM 3.0.0

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Post by noblethrasher »

adamors wrote: post #7

While the release names based on rappers is quite a fun idea, I don't get why they didn't go for people who are, you know, good at hip hop. I mean 50 cent and Childish Gambino? And especially next to Em and Ghostface. Or is this a good release/bad release kind of thing?

I can’t say much about the others, but 50-cent has a famously hardcore work ethic, for that alone he’s worth celebrating.
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