Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...

At Facebook, the codebase that runs the social networking site is written in Hack. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based social networking titan said it had streamlined PHP, made it better, and that Hack was ...

Facebook just released a new programming language — aptly named Hack — that will let programmers write code faster while more easily avoiding errors. Hack hits a sweet-spot by combining elements of ...

There is a clever combination of language and platform development rolling out of Facebook engineering in the form of HHVM and the Hack programming language—and what is working for production users of ...

Facebook last week open sourced an internal programming language called Hack, developed by its engineers to improve upon -- while remaining compatible with -- the PHP scripting language running much ...

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Today Facebook has launched a new programming language called Hack which has been designed for HHVM and interoperates seamlessly with PHP. HHVM is an an open-source virtual machine designed for ...

So, you heard that some developers make a lot of money with iPhone and Android apps, and you’re thinking about getting a mobile development gig for yourself, but you have no idea how to code. In that ...