Re: Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-24 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 18:34:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hack is a front-end language that does not compete with D. Why don't you think D should be used for front-end? -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-23 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad
On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 05:53:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: It doesn't matter how beautiful a language is, as soon as you put them on the hands of an average developer, the result will be horrible. :-) I like that comment. Fortunately most web requests are simple to handle, so PHP and Perl

Re: Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-23 Thread w0rp
On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 05:53:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: It doesn't matter how beautiful a language is, as soon as you put them on the hands of an average developer, the result will be horrible. But if the said developers deliver, that is everything the customer cares about. Regardless of

Re: Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-23 Thread Asman01
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:39:57 UTC, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote: News: http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/ Language's Page: http://hacklang.org/ I thought Facebook would be using D in the future. Beautif

Re: Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-23 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 23.03.2014 05:36, schrieb Asman01: On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:39:57 UTC, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote: News: http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/ Language's Page: http://hacklang.org/ I thought Facebook wou

Re: Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-22 Thread deadalnix
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:39:57 UTC, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote: News: http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/ Language's Page: http://hacklang.org/ I thought Facebook would be using D in the future. Facebook

Re: Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/22/14, 10:39 AM, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote: News: http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/ Language's Page: http://hacklang.org/ I thought Facebook would be using D in the future. Hack is a front-end language

Re: Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-22 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
The reason for using their hack is probably legacy PHP code and experience carrying over; they can bring their existing staff and code to the new compiler then start bolting on new features one by one. Same reason they did the whole HipHop thing - trying to put some lipstick on PHP and now they

Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

2014-03-22 Thread Tolga Cakiroglu
News: http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/20/facebook-unveils-hack-a-faster-programming-language-to-power-the-social-network/ Language's Page: http://hacklang.org/ I thought Facebook would be using D in the future.