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Re:Everything you need (and don't need) to know about PHP's ... by Shish2k on Sunday July 26, 2020 @07:04AM (#23956143)
If you’re building an app to run on other people’s servers, vanilla PHP is much more widely available :(

(Sad because I use Hack in my day job and PHP for my open source projects, and find Hack way more pleasant and productive)

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Re:Everything you need (and don't need) to know about PHP's ... by thepratt on Sunday July 26, 2020 @07:37AM (#23956310)
Hacklang diverged from PHP proper a while ago, but I haven't validated what this actually means. I know interoperability wasn't guaranteed, but with Hack at your work are you able to use composer packages - i.e. Symfony components? The ecosystem around pure Hack packages or frameworks appears quite small/niche.
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