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Such a pedantic response, the archetypical HN comment, I can sense the pretentious smirk on your face while writing it, thanks. Words still mean something, we don't compile a dynamically typed, interpreted scripting language such as PHP for a reason and as it turns out Facebook didn't "compile PHP" either but a dialect of the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)




Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Facebook transpiled it before using the HHVM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP




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