Pro's and Con's of HackLang

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Delphi Coder

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• Apr 11, 2014

• #1

I was wondering if anyone has messed around with FaceBook's Hack Language? Is it any better than PHP?

Ps- Has anyone played with Google Go much?

 

Chris22

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• Apr 12, 2014

• #2

It's added things to PHP that languages like C# and Java added over 5 years ago.

 

lancis

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Jul 31, 2010

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• Apr 12, 2014

• #3

Boy, what an ugly syntax for return type.

Code:

public function alpha(): int {
     return 1;
  }

 

jazzc

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• Apr 13, 2014

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If you 're coming from a strongly typed language background, then you may be drawn to it due to that. Otherwise, it makes no real sense to favor it over the vanilla PHP implementation.

 

BuildMoreLinks

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• Apr 13, 2014

• #5

Facebook's informal motto is "Move fast and break things". Today's apps aren't built on perfectly crafted code

 

madoctopus

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• Apr 13, 2014

• #6

I would never ever use a strong typed PHP. Reason I use PHP is because it is supported on every single host out there. Rather than learn this hack language I'd be much better off just going for one of the better architected languages - Java or C#.

 

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I come from delphi, but yes c# is good