Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

Re:Hack: a new programming language for HHVM by ecaron on Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:26PM (#7436557)

Do you imagine a future where Hack will merge back into PHP (like PHP 7), in the same style that Beryl & Compiz then rejoined? Or does the team intend for the two to always be adjacent-yet-separate?

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Re:Hack: a new programming language for HHVM by SaraMG on Friday March 21, 2014 @02:19AM (#7440934)

HHVM developer & PHP runtime developer here. I've got hands in both runtimes and all even I can say is: Maybe.

I think the most likely outcome is that PHP will adopt some of HHVM's additional features, but remain a separate project. IMO that's a great outcome, since we'll both likely drive the other to be better.

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Re:Hack: a new programming language for HHVM by Joeri on Thursday March 20, 2014 @01:58PM (#7437363)

Hhvm is not a fork of php. To my knowledge it's a radically different codebase that reimplements php's api.

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