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hacknat on March 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails

I agree with you and would like to add (to the author of Hippy): Why not contribute to HHVM (or fork it and improve it)? If you made a few tactical improvements to HHVM that sped it up a bit, and kept a few good ideas in your back pocket, I'm sure the whomever is PMing the project at Facebook would love to talk to you.

Don't want to work at Facebook? I understand that, but before you say no, infrastructure teams at large companies tend to have a lot of freedom and lack of politicos sniffing about. It might actually be quite a bit of fun on the HHVM team.

crudbug on March 20, 2015 | [–]

PyPy [1] is whole different compiler infrastructure, it is designed to build dynamic languages.

[1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/pypy.html

TazeTSchnitzel on March 20, 2015 | [–]

HHVM is open-source, too, I'm sure they'd happily accept useful patches.

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