TATazeTSchnitzel·Sep 18, 2017
Given HHVM is already being dropped from PHP packages because of its lagging compatibility, announcing that they're not targeting PHP compatibility any more might be the nail in the coffin for HHVM (and thus Hack) as a viable “upgrade” from PHP for existing codebases.
I mean, it's great that Hack will work for new Hack code and existing Hack codebases, but there aren't a lot of those. It makes sense for Facebook — why waste your efforts on maintaining part of your runtime that you don't need? — but I wonder if this will consign HHVM to irrelevance in the long term. Maybe Hack is a compelling platform for new code, but then, why use this obscure proprietary Facebook thing that's a bit better than PHP when you could use any of the numerous other languages out there that are also better than PHP but have much better ecosystems?
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is makes me sad because I wanted to see a standardised, multiple-implementation PHP language. Facebook did, even. They paid someone to write a spec: https://github.com/php/php-langspec
Maybe someone will write a new PHP implementation to take that idea forward. Or maybe we'll be stuck with Zend forever.
The future is strange.