Source: slack.engineering

Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP

Category: PHP, javascript

Slack launched in 2014 with a PHP 5 backend. Along with several other companies, we switched to HHVM in 2016 because it ran our PHP code faster. We stayed with HHVM because it offers an entirely new language: Hack (searchable as Hacklang).
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