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by segmondy 3195 days ago
If you believe this, then you are very bad at predicting the future. I'm very bad at that too. But I can assure you, "better languages" don't win the war. PHP has a lot of software out there and what's going to have it leading HHVM. You will have the "cutting edge" folks give HHVM a shot, but all the practical folks don't care. The only way HHVM will have a chance will be to be 100% backwards compatible.