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Re:Hacking Hack on Heroku by binarytrees on Friday March 21, 2014 @09:07PM (#7446387)
Can someone tl;dr me the benefits of this new language? I am not a big fan of Facebook or php.
Re:Hacking Hack on Heroku by plumeria on Friday March 21, 2014 @10:07PM (#7446814)
I would say that the fact it "interoperates seamlessly with PHP" is the main benefit, due to the new features as listed in the front page. And it is directed to people already using PHP.

As an aside, we could say that Scala : Java :: Hack : PHP?

Re:Hacking Hack on Heroku by elwell on Friday March 21, 2014 @10:29PM (#7446960)
Closer integration with HHVM than plain PHP