I left the PHP world for few years and I was working in C#.Net since then. I am thinking about diving into the PHP again and today I came across http://hhvm.com/ and it seems way more similar to C#...

So I was excited to jump into some Hacklang and HHVM, and after finally managing to get it running on a CentOS 6 VM (tip: servergrove.com have a RPM from a repo of theirs, but it still needed MySQL...

The docs are pretty light. The interface looks almost identical to an array. When should I prefer a dict?

Hacklang may still be relatively new but are there any frameworks (MVC for instance) that are well-documented for it ? I've stumbled accross Fastuc or Hack-mvc but they don't seem ready yet and the...

Has anyone managed to find an IDE for Hack Language used on HHVM ?Is there any plugin available for the well-known IDEs like Eclipse,Netbeans,etc? Thank you! Edit : By the time SiebelsTim has embe...

Can we expect a speed gain by transitioning from PHP to Hack on HHVM? I'm thinking of the strongly typed parameters / return types, in particular scalars, does that allow HHVM to do a better job a...

I have started learning hacklang today and now I am a bit stuck on shapes: http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.shapes.php I understand the concept of shapes and it seems really useful for me, but ...

The Hack manual makes it fairly clear how to type-annotate function parameters, function return types, and member variables. However, all of the ways I've tried to type-annotate a global variable o...

Is there any way to tell HHVM to output Hacklang warnings and errors into the browser? Something like PHP does with enabled display_errors, display_startup_errors and error_reporting set to E_ALL ...

Can someone explain how this works? http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.lambda.php Variables are captured automatically and transitively (including $this): <?hh $z = 11; $foo = $x ==> $y =...

I am getting a pdo exception "could not find driver" when trying to access MySql through PDO using hacklang/hhvm (compiled today). I tried installing php5-mysql but I'm not even sure that is helpfu...

I decided to start a new project to get into hacklang, and after fixing some if the problems I initially ran into transitioning from php habits, I ran into the following errors: Unbound name: str_...

Facebook have introduced a new programming language, which looks mostly like an extension to PHP. They've called it Hack and it's running on their HHVM engine. After seeing their website and...