{"id":18949,"date":"2017-09-21T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18949"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:13:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:13:56","slug":"hhvm-chooses-hack-over-php-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/hhvm-chooses-hack-over-php-7\/","title":{"rendered":"HHVM Chooses Hack Over PHP 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hhvm.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/the-future-of-hhvm.html\">Max Wang<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15278151\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/hhvm.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/the-future-of-hhvm.html\">\n<p>PHP7 is charting a new course away from PHP5, and we want to do the same, via a renewed focus on Hack. Consequently,<em> HHVM will not aim to target PHP7.<\/em> The HHVM team believes that we have a clear path toward making Hack a fantastic language for web development, untethered from its PHP origins. We&rsquo;d do ourselves and our users a disservice by positioning HHVM as an uncommon, less well-documented, less compatible PHP7 runtime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Wang (via Hacker News): PHP7 is charting a new course away from PHP5, and we want to do the same, via a renewed focus on Hack. Consequently, HHVM will not aim to target PHP7. The HHVM team believes that we have a clear path toward making Hack a fantastic language for web development, untethered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,815,470,46,359,71],"class_list":["post-18949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-facebook","tag-hack-lang","tag-hhvm","tag-languagedesign","tag-php","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18950,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949\/revisions\/18950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}