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by brianpgordon 4491 days ago
Zend is, indeed, infamously a mess. HipHop is supposed to be better.

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm

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Yeah, Hack for HHVM adds a bunch of stuff to PHP to make it better, including:

- Collection classes like Vector (which is like an array in every other programming language ever) and Map (associative array or hashtable)

- Generics

- Lambda functions

- Asynchronous functions

- Type hinting for intrinsic types (int, string, bool)

Not much public documentation yet, but most bits are in the open source HHVM release, and there are a few blog posts on it (eg. http://www.sitepoint.com/hhvm-hack-part-1/)