On Fri Jan 30 2015 at 10:04:39 AM Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:18 AM, James Douglas jdouglas@wikimedia.org wrote:
I wonder whether Go's lack of parametric polymorphism might make it a pretty tough sell. Given the potential benefit of introducing a
statically
typed language, it might be interesting to investigate and compare some
of
the different options.
Regarding Yuri's point about tools, what would it take to integrate Hack into the current MediaWiki build processes? It *seems* like it wouldn't
be
a huge diversion, but I'm quite unfamiliar with what's in place now.
Have
we dabbled in Hack since the HHVM switch?
I'm not aware of any WMF/MediaWiki work being done in Hack yet. Putting Hack into MediaWiki's core would be controversial but a stand alone service/app could easily choose to use it I think.
Yeah, I'd -2 anything that required Hack in core.
However if an extension wants to experiment they probably could. I was already thinking of trying some Hack in something WMF-specific like a Wikimedia* extension.
-Chad