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Re:Hack: a new programming language for HHVM on Thursday March 20, 2014 @03:53PM (#7438161)
Thank you for your work on this and for open sourcing it. It looks like it can make large code bases in PHP a great deal more manageable.

Do you expect Hack to be stable without large breaking changes going forward?

The documentation doesn't say much about the scheduling for asynchronous tasks. Can async functions be used to batch requests to e.g. caches and databases? Can Awaitable be used to interface with code that expects chainable Future or Promise-style interfaces?

Can HHVM/Hack use standard PHP extensions, or how much work is it to port an extension?

Is there a Hack plugin for IntelliJ?

Does the Hack project have a mailing list or forum?