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Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack by arcticbull on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:51AM (#17976150)
You could argue that it already did become incredibly widespread (as php) then died off slowly due to market forces.
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Re:Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack by CleanShirt on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:36AM (#17976514)
I wouldn’t say Hack was ever popular as a language. The HHVM certainly had popularity as a runtime for PHP until the speed increase of PHP7.
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