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Hack vs Imba: What are the differences?

What is Hack? A programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack provides instantaneous type checking via a local server that watches the filesystem. It typically runs in less than 200 milliseconds, making it easy to integrate into your development workflow without introducing a noticeable delay.

What is Imba? Take a whole lot of Ruby, a pinch of Python and some React, get Imba. Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant and readable JavaScript. It has language level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering dom nodes.

Hack and Imba can be primarily classified as "Languages" tools.

Imba is an open source tool with 3.5K GitHub stars and 128 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Imba's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Imba
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    Interoperates seamlessly with php
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    Open source
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    Backed by facebook
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    HHVM
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    PHP like
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    Great documentation
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    Generics
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    Fast
  • 1
    Used by facebook
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    Great type system
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    Easy to learn
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    What is Hack?

    Hack provides instantaneous type checking via a local server that watches the filesystem. It typically runs in less than 200 milliseconds, making it easy to integrate into your development workflow without introducing a noticeable delay.

    What is Imba?

    Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant and readable JavaScript. It has language level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering dom nodes.

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