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, ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

Instead of throwing out years of legacy code, Facebook built a new branch of the language that originally underpinned TheFacebook.com. Here’s the story behind a two-year labor of love. “Every PHP ...

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 ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

No, you don’t need an IDE to code in PHP language, you can code in Notepad and be all good. But trust me, you wouldn’t want to go that route as you have to put in a lot of extra and unnecessary work ...

A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open ...

Microsoft's superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, has shot up to become the fourth most popular programming language on code collaboration platform, GitHub. TypeScript's ascent is tracked in ...

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, ...