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		Matl on Sept 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Internet of PHP Isn't Hack basically compiled PHP so that it is faster for FB's use case? I understand it's not technically PHP, but I imagine it is effectively still PHP, or is it more like what C++ is to C? I understand PHP is fast adding any actual language features that Hack has over it?

phyrex on Sept 9, 2023 [–]

At one point it was, but since then it’s become it’s own language with a completely new (JIT-based) implementation

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