Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language of the Future

    "The closest thing, they say, is Haskell, a statically typed language that provides a way of executing code relatively quickly."

Type-annotated PHP =~= Haskell? In which universe?

> "You can think of Hack as a new version of PHP"

> "Ironically," he says, "its chief advantage is how little it differs from PHP."

I'd probably be keeping quite about that

According to the article, the main thing that slows devs down is compiling the code? How insightful.