On Fri Jan 30 2015 at 10:04:39 AM Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:18 AM, James Douglas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I wonder whether Go's lack of parametric polymorphism might make it a > > pretty tough sell. Given the potential benefit of introducing a > statically > > typed language, it might be interesting to investigate and compare some > of > > the different options. > > > > Regarding Yuri's point about tools, what would it take to integrate Hack > > into the current MediaWiki build processes? It *seems* like it wouldn't > be > > a huge diversion, but I'm quite unfamiliar with what's in place now. > Have > > we dabbled in Hack since the HHVM switch? > > I'm not aware of any WMF/MediaWiki work being done in Hack yet. > Putting Hack into MediaWiki's core would be controversial but a stand > alone service/app could easily choose to use it I think. Yeah, I'd -2 anything that required Hack in core. However if an extension wants to experiment they probably could. I was already thinking of trying some Hack in something WMF-specific like a Wikimedia* extension. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
