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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Please join us for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Hack: An Evolution of PHP
*Presenter:* Josh Watzman from Facebook
*Date:* March 4th
*Time:* 1800 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Hack%3A+An+Evolution+of+PHP&iso=20150304T18&p1=1440&ah=1>
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXqdqUhxy8>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
Google+ page
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place for questions
*Talk description: *Although PHP has several features that allow
engineers to be extremely productive in it, it also has several rough edges
and pitfalls that cause problems (and often give the language a bad name).
This talk will introduce Hack, Facebook's dialect of PHP. Hack keeps most
of the PHP language -- all of the parts that make engineers so productive
-- but sands down several of the more problematic sharp edges. It also
introduces several new features, such as a simple yet extremely powerful
syntax for asynchronous IO, to make the language even more effective for
existing PHP programmers and newcomers alike.