#Facebook Introduces #Hack, the Programming Language of the Future - Wired #TheNewPHP #HHVM #Forumatic | You can think of Hack as a new version of #PHP. It too runs on the Hip Hop Virtual Machine, but it lets coders use both dynamic typing and static typing. In doing so, he explains, Facebook built much more precise code — code with fewer flaws. Hack provides a kind of safety net for developers. What’s more, engineers can more easily understand code when they revisit it. Static typing acts a lot like documentation. But the big trick is that Hack provides these benefits without slowing down the developer: Unlike other statically type languages, Hack can run without compiling. Hack will be particularly attractive, Adermann says, to existing PHP shops. “Ironically,” he says, “its chief advantage is how little it differs from PHP.”
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:12:54 +0000
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