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		theptip 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The story of Max, a real programmer Only kind of, they have their own language (Hack) that descends from PHP. It’s JIT instead of interpreted, and breaks back-compat in a few ways.

Szpadel 5 months ago [–]

php is also jited nowadays. currently I believe the main advantage is that hack is async, you can fire multiple SQL/http requests in parallel and cut some wall time.

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