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I'm not sure anyone is debating that in the terms of PHP7 vs HHVM. Hack has been a different language for quite some time and that is exactly the problem. The more it diverged from PHP the less sense it made for most people to go that direction. Also on a personal level I'm really not sure why anyone would want to go that direction. Of all the problems people usually say they have with PHP, just fixing the type syste…
> If Hack then really is a different language and you don't like PHP, why not migrate to something completely different? For server-side web programming, what shall one adopt? Python and Ruby are great dynamically-typed languages, with rich ecosystems, but don't have any type system. This makes maintenance, and evolution of the codebase, tricky in the long run. For languages that do have type-systems: Go's is a bit t…
Re: HHVM 4.0.0
#21TypeScript? Python 3 with type hint? .NET core?