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		bpicolo on Nov 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8 Over 30%, thanks to Wordpress.

tooop on Nov 9, 2019 | [–]

w3techs reports that PHP is around 78% in Alexa Top 10mil sites.

tambourine_man on Nov 9, 2019 | [–]

Facebook, Wikipedia

no_wizard on Nov 9, 2019 | [–]

I believe that Facebook is fully transitioning to hacklang

https://hacklang.org/

captn3m0 on Nov 9, 2019 | | [–]

Doesn’t that count as a PHP dialect?

krapp on Nov 9, 2019 | | [–]

Depends on what you mean by "dialect." I believe complete backwards compatibility with PHP is no longer a goal of Hack.

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