Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by geerlingguy on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:41PM (#21942576)

And PHP. PVP 5.3 was the newest version in 2010 and as the years wore on many thought HipHop by Facebook would start to take over for serious PHP applications. PHP 7 completely changed the course of the PHP community and took the air out of HHVM’s sails.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by TheKarateKid on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:16AM (#21944165)

Did PHP 7 introduce optimizations similar to HipHop?

I was always curious what happened to HipHop. Didn’t it become a part of Facebook’s custom flavor of PHP? (Forgot it’s name)

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by Joeri on Friday January 03, 2020 @10:10AM (#21946488)

HipHop was a cross-compiler which facebook abandoned for HHVM, a rewrite of the PHP engine with faster internals. It always had compatibility issues, but the improved performance made it interesting (afaik nobody outside facebook really got that much into Hack the language). PHP7 was a rewrite of the internal data structures which put it on close enough performance footing. Because HHVM was never a drop-in replacement for PHP and moved further away over time the community ended up sticking with PHP7 and now pretty much only facebook uses HHVM, with the big players that moved to HHVM all transitioning back to PHP7.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by scrollaway on Friday January 03, 2020 @06:17AM (#21944950)

Hack, right? I'm curious as well.

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