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by jesseschalken 3611 days ago
Am I correct in saying that the Hack and Flow typecheckers share a lot of code? If so, does this mean that Hack typechecking on Windows could be next?
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gabelevi 3611 days ago
Yep, you are correct! The hardest parts of getting Flow and Hack to build on Windows are solved. For Hack, there's probably a long tail of small issues before a Windows build can be released, though.

Is Hack on Windows something that you'd use? Or are you asking out of curiosity?

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jesseschalken 3610 days ago
It is. We have a large codebase we would like to migrate to Hack, but we also have a lot of developers who use Windows and the current experience with needing to boot a virtual machine just to check types doesn't really cut it.
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