[hnarn]

> When I write Javascript or Python, I have complaints and issues, but I enjoy writing code. I think PHP, for many programmers, including myself, is just a hostile and unenjoyable experience.

Surely JS has at least an equal amount of foot-guns to PHP. I mean, at least PHP (to my knowledge) never had a meta-language written around it that compiles to PHP to make it safer.

[regularfry]

Did Hack start that way, or am I misremembering?

[paulryanrogers]

IIRC Hack transpiles to C++ with an intermediate build step. So not exactly the same.