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Re:Two interns are helping secure millions of lines of code by smt88 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:57PM (#29112984)
My mind is blown that a company as big as Slack uses Hack do extensively. The community for it is non-existent, which they acknowledge.

It must be incredibly hard to have rudimentary tooling to work on such a huge and complex system...

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Re:Two interns are helping secure millions of lines of code by tmm84 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:47PM (#29114586)
Maybe this because of personal historical perspective but I think I have an idea as to why. PHP7 wasn't released yet and FB was the creator of it. I think those two decisions influenced using Hack (as the staff may have been big PHP users) instead of waiting for PHP7 and how it would be adopted/grow. Also, it supports typing arguments which was probably the idea to handle complexity.
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