Episode 62: PHP and Hack

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• Jason: Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
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• Patrick: Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey
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Tool of the Show

• Jason: Emacs org-mode
• http://orgmode.org/
• Patrick: Linters
• https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
• https://github.com/google/styleguide/tree/gh-pages/cpplint
• https://www.pylint.org/

PHP & Hack

• PHP
• Intro
• Templating
• Can Embed in HTML
• Server-Side HTML Rendering
• Advantages
• Lots of libraries
• Lots of tutorials and examples
• Details
• Weakly typed
• Associative Arrays but with iterative support
• Classes (as of PHP 3)
• Hack
• Backwards-compatible with PHP
• Can run PHP code in hack without side effects
• Compiled and Faster (HHVM)
• Adds new features:
• Types & Nullable
• Generics
• Collections, Lambda functions
• Async functions
• Why/When to use?
• Legacy Systems
• Where is it used?
• Wordpress, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, Gallery, Drupal, MediaWiki, Joomla