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Washuu on Sept 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack

MediaWiki has to support PHP 7 for the community of wikis outside Wikipedia that use it. If they dropped PHP 7 support they would be making MediaWiki a bit of an insular project.

debacle on Sept 13, 2018 [–]

Or Facebook could sponsor their development on hhvm and use that to promote hack lang.

Washuu on Sept 14, 2018 | [–]

Then every single third party extension developer would also have to move to Hack. Knowing what I know about certain extension developers that will never happen and a hard fork of MediaWiki will occur.

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