• Tolga Cakiroglu (5/5) Mar 22 2014 News:
• Adam D. Ruppe (6/6) Mar 22 2014 The reason for using their hack is probably legacy PHP code and
• Andrei Alexandrescu (3/8) Mar 22 2014 Hack is a front-end language that does not compete with D.
• Jacob Carlborg (5/6) Mar 24 2014 Why don't you think D should be used for front-end?
• deadalnix (6/11) Mar 22 2014 Facebook is a composed of many different systems and uses many
• Asman01 (2/7) Mar 22 2014 Beautiful as PHP...
• Paulo Pinto (8/18) Mar 22 2014 It doesn't matter how beautiful a language is, as soon as you put them
• w0rp (15/24) Mar 23 2014 That's what is interesting about Facebook and PHP. PHP is a
• "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= (13/18) Mar 23 2014 :-) I like that comment.

"Tolga Cakiroglu" <tcak pcak.com> writes:

News:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/

Language's Page:
http://hacklang.org/

I thought Facebook would be using D in the future.

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

The reason for using their hack is probably legacy PHP code and 
experience carrying over; they can bring their existing staff and 
code to the new compiler then start bolting on new features one 
by one. Same reason they did the whole HipHop thing - trying to 
put some lipstick on PHP and now they're trying to polish it, one 
step at a time.

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

On 3/22/14, 10:39 AM, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote:
 News:
 http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/


 Language's Page:
 http://hacklang.org/

 I thought Facebook would be using D in the future.

Hack is a front-end language that does not compete with D.

Andrei

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob me.com> writes:

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 18:34:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Hack is a front-end language that does not compete with D.

Why don't you think D should be used for front-end?

--
/Jacob Carlborg

"deadalnix" <deadalnix gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:39:57 UTC, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote:
 News:
 http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/

 Language's Page:
 http://hacklang.org/

 I thought Facebook would be using D in the future.

Facebook is a composed of many different systems and uses many 
different languages. The front end code is made with hack. But 
many services and tooling are made with other languages. D is 
used for some of them.

I think Andrei will talk a bit more about this at DConf.

"Asman01" <jckj33 gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:39:57 UTC, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote:
 News:
 http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/

 Language's Page:
 http://hacklang.org/

 I thought Facebook would be using D in the future.

Beautiful as PHP...

Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:

Am 23.03.2014 05:36, schrieb Asman01:
 On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:39:57 UTC, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote:
 News:
 http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/


 Language's Page:
 http://hacklang.org/

 I thought Facebook would be using D in the future.

 Beautiful as PHP...

It doesn't matter how beautiful a language is, as soon as you put them 
on the hands of an average developer, the result will be horrible.

But if the said developers deliver, that is everything the customer 
cares about. Regardless of what gets discussed about quality in software
conferences.

--
Paulu

"w0rp" <devw0rp gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 05:53:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
 It doesn't matter how beautiful a language is, as soon as you 
 put them on the hands of an average developer, the result will 
 be horrible.

 But if the said developers deliver, that is everything the 
 customer cares about. Regardless of what gets discussed about 
 quality in software
 conferences.

 --
 Paulu

That's what is interesting about Facebook and PHP. PHP is a 
terrible language, we all know this. However the Facebook 
developers are obviously very good at what they do. So in the 
hands of them, they can do good things with PHP.

At the time Facebook started, I would argue that no other 
language could deliver the lifecycle PHP does, with all state 
needed for a request living and dying with each request, leaving 
it as just about the only thing which wouldn't slowly get worse 
over time. We are now at a stage where this is not the case, and 
other languages have web development toolkits stable enough to 
not cause gradual corruption. Still, I can recount a tale where 
upgrading to Django 1.5.0 at my office caused a memory leak, 
because of a bug in Django which was fixed in the next patch. 
This kind of problem was very common years ago.

"Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= writes:

On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 05:53:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
 It doesn't matter how beautiful a language is, as soon as you 
 put them on the hands of an average developer, the result will 
 be horrible.

:-) I like that comment.

Fortunately most web requests are simple to handle, so PHP and 
Perl are quite sufficient. Both PHP and Perl succeeded originally 
because they embraced C-ish syntax and common C libraries and 
their APIs which made them easy to use casually for programmers 
who dealt with unix/C regularly.

Less to memorize. Low threshold for entry.

 But if the said developers deliver, that is everything the 
 customer cares about.

True. Since many users are now used to PHP-based forums and 
Wordpress and their UIs/feature set, it becomes more difficult to 
push better platforms (with different feature sets).

Almost all full featured forum software packages are written in 
PHP. That is kind of scary.