Instead of throwing out years of legacy code, Facebook built a new branch of the language that originally underpinned TheFacebook.com. Here's the story behind a two-year labor of love.

First created in 1993 to enhance the webpage of programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP didn’t originate as a new programming language and as such it developed organically.

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...

Another long-term design goal — more implied by the language’s construction than explicitly stated by Facebook — is making Hack safer with fewer inherent vulnerabilities than PHP.

A senior Google database expert loves the JIT compiler, but others doubt its worth and say it could be hard to maintain.

PHP is considered as the most revolutionary technology when we talk about web development. Here, we have discussed 10 incredible things you can do using PHP though there are many more.

Management apparently does not understand that ramping up in a new language/framework will take some time; if for no other reason to learn the syntax and language specific features.

If PHP is your scripting language of choice when it comes to developing dynamic Web sites, you probably have grown to love its immediacy and power. An estimated ten million Web sites use at least some ...

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand ...