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Hack vs Unison: What are the differences?

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; Unison: Modern, statically-typed purely functional programming language. It is an open source functional programming language based on a simple idea with big implications: code is content-addressed and immutable.

Hack and Unison belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

Unison is an open source tool with 2.53K GitHub stars and 110 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Unison's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Hack
Pros of Unison
  • 6
    Interoperates seamlessly with php
  • 6
    Open source
  • 5
    Backed by facebook
  • 4
    HHVM
  • 2
    PHP like
  • 2
    Great documentation
  • 2
    Generics
  • 1
    Fast
  • 1
    Used by facebook
  • 0
    Great type system
  • 0
    Easy to learn
  • 1
    Algebraic effects
  • 1
    Simpler

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Cons of Hack
Cons of Unison
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      Alpha quality

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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 Unison?

    It is an open source functional programming language based on a simple idea with big implications: code is content-addressed and immutable.

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