PHP is nearly as old as the web. Change the conversation and say: I use Hack on the Hip Hop Virtual Machine. Source: about 2 years ago

Meta has created/maintains ReactJS, Zstandard, IO_Uring, PyTorch, HHVM, is a member of Rust foundation, and that's only the things I know about. They've literally made the Web and Linux better and faster. Source: over 2 years ago

Have you looked into Hacklang / HHVM at all. Source: over 2 years ago

If you ever need to work with PHP, use PHP/Hack developed by Facebook: https://hacklang.org/ It's a compiled language built partially in Rust, being rewritten entirely in Rust, JIT compiled using HHVM: https://hhvm.com/ I don't believe it's compatible with existing PHP codebases, but you could probably convert one over in a straightforward way, catching safety issues while you did it. Hack a modern and highly... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

Too bad I hate Facebook except for the HHVM. Are there any others? Source: about 3 years ago

At my day job (https://buoyant.io/), we're using it to write a reverse proxy/load balancer --- one of the use-cases where you really, absolutely do need asynchronous concurrency. :). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Not to be confused with the other Buoyant [1], the company behind the linkerd service mesh. Not that I'm really into service meshes, but I happened to be doing some reading about the Tokio async runtime for Rust yesterday, and a lot of the work on that has been funded by that Buoyant, which is why that company was on my mind. [1]: https://buoyant.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago