Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...

Facebook open sourced an internal programming language called Hack, developed by its engineers to improve upon -- while remaining compatible with -- the PHP scripting language running much of the ...

Hack adds features long needed in PHP, but programmers have many reasons to favor the original over the fork ...

To ease the pain of PHP programmers without making them abandon the language and years of software development, Facebook developed Hack, a new, PHP-derived language that’s largely compatible ...

Some, however, question whether Hack should really be called a new programming language. There's a fine line here between an update to PHP and a replacement for PHP.

Today Facebook has launched a new programming language called Hack which has been designed for HHVM and interoperates seamlessly with PHP. HHVM is an an open-source virtual machine designed for ...

Facebook engineers Bryan O’Sullivan, Julien Verlaguet, and Alok Menghrajani spent the last few years building a programming language unlike any other. Working alongside a handful of others ...

Hack hits a sweet-spot by combining elements of both static and dynamic languages. Meaning, programmers can retain all the speed they'd have with a dynamic language (like PHP or Ruby), while also ...

Experts say Hack is a new version of PHP - the language Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used when he started building Facebook.