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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.
Pros of Hack
- Interoperates seamlessly with php6
- Open source6
- Backed by facebook5
- HHVM4
- PHP like2
- Great documentation2
- Generics2
- Fast1
- Used by facebook1
- Great type system0
- Easy to learn0
Pros of Unison
- Algebraic effects1
- Simpler1
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Cons of Hack
Cons of Unison
- Alpha quality1