Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language of the Future

Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language of the Future
Cade Metz, Wired, March 20, 2014
Interesting. I remember when Facebook was PHP (I actually saw the code once, because of a dropped format declaration). Their new programming language "lets programmers build complex websites and other software at great speed while still ensuring that their software code is precisely organized and relatively free of flaws... the new language is called Hack." It has some nice features - it's statically typed (which means you declare what all your variables are before you use them) but compiles at run-time, which means developers can immediately see the rsults of minor changes. More...