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I decided, against my better judgement, that I should teach myself Hack (because why not), and by extension, how to set up a Vagrant box (since I'm using Windows and the tutorials I found for that assume Vagrant.) As an experiment, I'm porting over a HN clone I had written in PHP to it.

So far, I'm able to get the box working, get the database up and get everything running, and a basic XHP based layout, but the actual application barely exists. I do not guarantee the quality of anything since this project is still just days old but here is a repo[0] if anyone wants to take a look. It's awesome because I personally think it's awesome, or at least likely to be awesome in the future. You are welcome and, knowing HN, likely to disagree.

I'm also... three months into my first one game a month project[1]. It started as a Berzerk clone but will probably end up being some bog standard shooter. I recently got state machines and a quadtree working.

[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/based-hack

[1]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/berzerk



Hi! I created a tool that may help speed you along! https://puphpet.com

You can spin up a VM with Hack installed and get to learning HAck, not how to manage a VM!


Thanks, that looks like it could have save me some time...




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