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, ...

It seems Facebook wasn’t satisfied with merely building a virtual machine for PHP, HHVM, which compiles that language to C++ for faster execution. Facebook has now gone ahead and made a full-blown ...

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 ...