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Hack is a programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as a dialect of PHP. The language implementation is free and open-source software, licensed under an MIT License.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hack (programming language) | Designed by | Julien Verlaguet, Alok Menghrajani, Drew Paroski, others | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | Developer | Meta Platforms | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | Family | PHP | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | First appeared | 2014; 12 years ago (2014) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | License | MIT | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | OS | Cross-platform | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: imperative, functional, object-oriented, procedural, reflective | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | Stable release | 4.172 / 2 November 2022; 3 years ago (2 November 2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | Typing discipline | Static, dynamic, weak, gradual | 1.00 | infobox |
| Hack (programming language) | Website | hacklang.org | 1.00 | infobox |
| ActionScript | instance of | which is also implemented in other programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| integer or string | instance of | for scalar types | 0.80 | text |
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