“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...

At Facebook, the codebase that runs the social networking site is written in Hack. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based social networking titan said it had streamlined PHP, made it better, and that Hack was ...

It seems Facebook wasn’t satisfied with merely building a virtual machine for PHP, HHVM, which compiles that language to C++ for faster execution. Facebook has now gone ahead and made a full-blown ...

Facebook's Cambridge outpost played a leading role in developing a new open source programming language called Hack, released this week. Facebook's Cambridge outpost played a leading role in ...

There is a long history of Visual or Graphical Programming Languages, and most of them make more sense than the name of Microsoft’s Visual Basic, C#, and Visual Studio IDE. Some people don’t like to ...