On top of all that, now we want to make JavaScript type-safe. So let's add 10 more configuration files, add a compiler, and now we have bullcrap^2. Just like Facebook invented HackLang, Microsoft invented TypeScript, but only companies of this magnitude need such features. The average Joe from Delaware does not need all that. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

PHP results: Is Hack still popular with PHP people? I was stupid enough to write some scientific code in PHP once so know how slow it can be. But if your going to do try write performant code in PHP use the HHVM interpreter. It's much faster. Hack (https://hacklang.org/) uses that under the hood by default. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Meta: hacklang.org has the details there. It forked off of PHP ~5 years ago, and is no longer backwards compatible. I believe this is also what Slack uses. Source: about 1 year ago

Facebook literally created Hack because PHP wasn't meeting their needs at the time. Source: over 1 year ago

Well, yeah, since they generally don't kill popular projects. Hell hack is still getting updates even though no one ever gave a shit about it. Meanwhile Flutter can be cancelled tomorrow because another division made Clutter and they have more "political" pull at google... Source: almost 2 years ago

Metascraper is baked by Microlink, which uses it internally in its browser automation product. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

These guys bypass cloudflare https://microlink.io it's open source but it's just more convenient to pay and forget about it. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Microlink.io – It turns any website into data such as metatags normalization, beauty link previews, scraping capabilities or screenshots as a service. 250 reqs/day every day free. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago