Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection

Re:Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection by krapp on Sunday November 03, 2024 @05:51AM (#42032348)

I was excited about Hack when it came out. Unfortunately PHP took just enough from it to kill it. I gave up on it once Composer stopped supporting it, after backwards compatibility with PHP no longer became a goal.

IMHO Hack's best feature was native support for XHP... which (also unfortunately) isn't something PHP decided to take.

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Re:Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection by eru on Sunday November 03, 2024 @05:56AM (#42032356)

I only used Hack when I was very briefly working for Facebook. (And I used PHP once before nearly 20 years ago by now for some web site I had 'inherited', back when PHP was truly an awful language)

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Re:Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection by Twirrim on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:24PM (#42034943)

Hack really gave PHP/Zend the kick up the arse that it seemed to need.

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Re:Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection by eru on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:46AM (#42038869)

I guess like Scala (et al) and Java? C++ also seems to be learning things from Rust these days.

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