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Hack

Sat, 22 Mar 2014 05:44:06 GMT

The Hack language adds several missing features to PHP, most notably static typing. It was developed by Facebook for their HipHop VM. Via soy.

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XHP: Making mixed PHP+HTML cleaner

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:21:55 GMT

This has been out for three years and I hadn't heard of it before? It looks really useful. An interesting point is the reversal of flow control: Instead of a PHP page being an HTML template that breaks into and out of PHP, XHP promotes the design style of a PHP file that breaks into and out of HTML.

Another unrelated awesome project from three years ago: The LBW project is Wine for Windows, allowing ELFs to be run under Windows XP. Immediately impressive is that "it's adequate for ... downloading and installing packages with apt and dpkg" since I could never get apt and dpkg to compile under mingw or cygwin.

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References to static methods in PHP

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:28:06 GMT

Another reason PHP sucks: references to static methods are not supported. There is a hacky way to use them, however. ( Read more... )

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