HHVM and Hack – Can We Expect Them to Replace PHP?
Facebook started to work on HipHop for PHP in 2008. Their goal was to speed up the PHP execution speed and the first version of the project was composed of the tandem HPHPc/HPHPi. HPHPc is a PHP to C++...
View ArticleA Look at Hack, the PHP Replacement in HHVM
You can use the previously created Vagrant box to run the code snippets from this article. Why types ? In the first part of the article we’ve seen that HACK was actually statically typed. This means...
View ArticleArrays, Slices and Basic OOP in Go
Recently I wrote an introduction to using Go, looking at what it is, how to install it, and how to get your environment ready. The article finished up by stepping through a small application covering...
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Can We Have Static Types in PHP without PHP 7 or HHVM?
Now that PHP 7 has been out for a while with interesting features like error handling, null coalescing operator, scalar type declarations, etc., we often hear the people still stuck with PHP 5 saying...
View ArticleWriting Better JavaScript with Flow
How often have you found yourself tracking down a bug in some code, only to find the error was something simple that should have been avoidable? Maybe you passed the arguments to a function in the...
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