On top of all that, now we want to make JavaScript type-safe. So let's add 10 more configuration files, add a compiler, and now we have bullcrap^2. Just like Facebook invented HackLang, Microsoft invented TypeScript, but only companies of this magnitude need such features. The average Joe from Delaware does not need all that. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

PHP results: Is Hack still popular with PHP people? I was stupid enough to write some scientific code in PHP once so know how slow it can be. But if your going to do try write performant code in PHP use the HHVM interpreter. It's much faster. Hack (https://hacklang.org/) uses that under the hood by default. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Meta: hacklang.org has the details there. It forked off of PHP ~5 years ago, and is no longer backwards compatible. I believe this is also what Slack uses. Source: about 1 year ago

Facebook literally created Hack because PHP wasn't meeting their needs at the time. Source: over 1 year ago

Well, yeah, since they generally don't kill popular projects. Hell hack is still getting updates even though no one ever gave a shit about it. Meanwhile Flutter can be cancelled tomorrow because another division made Clutter and they have more "political" pull at google... Source: almost 2 years ago

You can install Deno by following the instructions on its official website. - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago

Deno: Deno with one of it's frameworks (like Fresh. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

Along the way, I not only got the oppurtunity to revise old concepts that had blurred in my memory, but also learnt about new technologies like Fresh.js, a framework from Deno (a js runtime engine) that uses Preact, a React Routing library and used Chakra UI for the first time. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

Import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std@0.198.0/http/server.ts"; Const handler = async (_request: Request): Promise => { const resp = await fetch("https://api.github.com/users/denoland", { // The init object here has an headers object containing a // header that indicates what type of response we accept. // We're not specifying the method field since by default // fetch makes a GET request. headers: { ... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

Deno is an alternative JavaScript runtime that was released back in 2020. I’ve been seeing more interest in it recently, and it has some compelling features:. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago